May Quotes
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
