May Quotes
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You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.
Esther Peterson
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And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.
William Raspberry
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There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.
Rachel Simmons
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We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.
Elizabeth Esty
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Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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I think we may be mistaking the elephant’s tail for a bell-pull.
Charles Stross
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Newt Gingrich
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martin
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
Nuala O'Faolain
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.
Caroline Emelia Stephen
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If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.
Lewis Howes
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I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.
Val Kilmer
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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.
Eric Kandel
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He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
Umar
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State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
Charles Duhigg
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
Peter Mullan
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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
Adolf Galland
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Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly
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All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.
Kurt Vonnegut
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While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.
Adena Friedman