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"It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it."
"I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life."
"I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict."
"Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also."
"Malicious men may die, but malice never."
"Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner."
"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
"May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends."
"When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one"
"Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act."
"Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system."
"Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain"
"The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War."
"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."
"A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol."
"Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it."
"Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense."
"It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did."
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be."
