"I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet."
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"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
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"I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution."
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"No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience."
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"We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."
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"Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not."
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"I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast."
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"It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million."
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"We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically."
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"Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first."
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"Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular."
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"Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."
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"Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation."
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"For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day."
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"I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me."
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"Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so."
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"Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly."
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"I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed."
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"We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport."
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"What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be."
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