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"It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience."
"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes."
"The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us."
"No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?"
"Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws."
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."
"Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come."
"The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it."
"For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along."
"May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young."
"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime."
"I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end."
"Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time"
"To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all."
"Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
"Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow."
"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
