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"God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out."
"Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic."
"It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money."
"The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction."
"May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it."
"Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones."
"When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better."
"Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be."
"All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings."
"Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent."
"Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said."
"A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying."
"If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God."
"We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them."
"If you thirst you may drink."
"As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary."
"The commercialism may wash off sometime later."
"Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad."
"We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
