"I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good."
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"You may be gone but you're never over."
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"I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations."
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"Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman."
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"Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?"
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"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment."
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"Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband."
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"Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one."
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"Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy."
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"Time may change me, but I can't trace time."
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"We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices."
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"Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society."
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"These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions."
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"An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness."
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"We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do."
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"Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems."
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"Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere."
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"Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction"
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"His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing."
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"Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure."
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