"Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak."
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"Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad."
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"Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all"
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
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"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
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"You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
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"Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?"
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"Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever."
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"Memorize the selfstarter DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved."
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"When you are free, all who come in contact with you will be blessed. Some may run away, but still they run away blessed."
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"I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them."
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"A wild thing may say wild things."
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"We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them."
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"Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful."
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"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
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"The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration."
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"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."
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"Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant."
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"Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."
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"I do desire we may be better strangers."
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