"We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us."
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"A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy."
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"One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise."
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"Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed."
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"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science."
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"Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth"
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"However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior."
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"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead."
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"The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil."
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"Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life."
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"Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well."
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"In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good."
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"As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead."
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"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."
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"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
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"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
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"Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation."
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"You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering."
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"The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve."
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"I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time."
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