May Quotes
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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
John Desmond Bernal
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
Laurie Graham
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Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
Brian Greene
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
Nevil Shute
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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
William Barclay
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I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.
Amor Towles
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It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
Charles de Lint
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
William Penn