May Quotes
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
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Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.
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I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.
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It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
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The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
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When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.
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Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.
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Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
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I’ve lapped so long. As you said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don’t speak, remember! Once it happened, so it may again. (625.27 - 625.29)
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
