"Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer."
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""Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?""
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"The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%."
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"I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire."
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"If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear."
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"Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it."
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"A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it."
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"It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose."
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"No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it."
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"Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government."
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"Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd."
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"One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent."
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"If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past."
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"Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other."
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"your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains."
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"If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity."
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"You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate."
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"The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry."
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"Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used."
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"In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent."
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