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"The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance."
"Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!"
"Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay."
"If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into."
"Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do."
"He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to."
"The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener."
"Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."
"Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you."
"I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself."
"In these silences something may rise"
"May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love."
"There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened."
"If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish."
"For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal."
"When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out."
"It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not."
"Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings."
"The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered."
"A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated."
