"Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason."
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"We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika."
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"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
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"If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical."
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"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."
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"It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness."
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"However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings."
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"Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved."
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"You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory."
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"It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design."
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"You may ask me for anything you like except time."
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"The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress."
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"When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready."
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"A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly."
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"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth."
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"He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant."
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"Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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"Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom."
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"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
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"May the hair on your toes never fall out!"
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