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Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.
Author:
Ron Ziegler
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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The world may believe as it pleases.
Author:
Cole Younger
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Author:
Brigham Young
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
Author:
William Yeats
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Author:
Angus Wilson
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I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
Author:
John Williams
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Author:
Mae West
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Author:
Jack Welch
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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Author:
George Washington
-
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Author:
Earl Warren
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Author:
Earl Warren
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Author:
Virgil
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
-
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
-
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Author:
John Updike
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Author:
Mark Twain
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For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Author:
Donald Trump
-
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.
Author:
Spencer Tracy
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Author:
J. Tolkien
-
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Author:
Alice Toklas
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Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.
Author:
Joe Tex
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It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
Author:
Sheri Tepper
-
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
Author:
John Templeton
-
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Author:
Edward Teller
-
We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.
Author:
Bernie Taupin
-
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Author:
Allen Tate
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They may be a little more high brow than we are.
Author:
David Talbot
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Author:
Tacitus
-
It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.
Author:
Tilda Swinton
-
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Author:
W. Stone
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They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
Author:
John Stevens
-
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
-
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
Author:
Frank Stella
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From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
-
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
-
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Author:
Howard Staunton
-
If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.
Author:
Roger Staubach
-
The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.
Author:
Johannes Stark
-
You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.
Author:
Morning Star
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The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
Author:
Josiah Stamp
-
You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.
Author:
Steven Squyres
-
They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
Author:
Robert Smith
-
Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.
Author:
Margaret Smith
-
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
-
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
-
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
-
Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
-
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Author:
Beverly Sills
-
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
Author:
Bill Sienkiewicz
-
I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
Author:
Elisabeth Shue
-
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
Author:
Charles Sherrington
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You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
Author:
William Sherman
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
Author:
Barry Sheene
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Author:
George Shaw
-
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
Author:
Dr. Seuss
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I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
Author:
William Scott
-
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
Author:
Jill Scott
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Author:
Paul Scofield
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What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
-
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Author:
Sydney Schanberg
-
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Author:
George Savile
-
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Author:
May Sarton
-
I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
Author:
Pierre Salinger
-
We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
Author:
Alberto Salazar
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
-
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
-
Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
-
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
Author:
Mark Rothko
-
Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.
Author:
Don Rose
-
With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.
Author:
Roy Romer
-
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Author:
Jim Rohn
-
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
Author:
Will Rogers
-
Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
Author:
Roy Rogers
-
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Author:
Theodore Roethke
-
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
-
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
-
There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
-
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
-
I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.
Author:
Slick Rick
-
One may live without bread, not without roses.
Author:
Jean Richepin
-
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
-
We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
-
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
Author:
Mary Richards
-
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Author:
Anne Rice
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I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Author:
Anne Rice
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As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
Author:
David Ricardo
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Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
Author:
David Ricardo
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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.
Author:
David Ricardo
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The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.
Author:
Paul Reubens
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
-
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
Author:
Della Reese
-
We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.
Author:
Sumner Redstone
-
When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.
Author:
Harry Reasoner
-
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Author:
Terence Rattigan
-
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Author:
Dan Rather
-
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
Author:
John Ransom
-
We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.
Author:
Timothy Radcliffe
-
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Author:
Jean Racine
-
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Author:
Willard Quine
-
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Author:
Dan Quayle
-
We always may be what we might have been.
Author:
Adelaide Procter
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No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Author:
Adelaide Procter
-
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Author:
Steve Prefontaine
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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
Author:
John Powell
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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Author:
Channing Pollock
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Author:
Edgar Poe
-
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Author:
Plato
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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Author:
Mary Pickford
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Author:
Mary Pickford
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
Author:
Phaedrus
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And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
-
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Author:
Norman Peale
-
The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Author:
Jeremy Paxman
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Author:
Louis Pasteur
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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Obligations may be universal or particular.
Author:
Tom Palmer
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
Author:
Jimmy Page
-
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
Author:
John Owen
-
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
Author:
Charles Osgood
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
Author:
Tim O'Reilly
-
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Author:
J. Oppenheimer
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The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
-
We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
Author:
David Neeleman
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Author:
George Nathan
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I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
Author:
George Murray
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It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
-
I may be an optimist.
Author:
Rebecca Mornay
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Author:
Hannah More
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No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Author:
Sun Moon
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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
Author:
John Moody
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When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.
Author:
Helen Moody
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One may be humble out of pride.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Author:
Moliere
-
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Author:
H. Mencken
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It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Author:
Thomas Mellon
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Author:
Marshall McLuhan
-
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
Author:
Michael McKean
-
If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
Author:
Patrick McHenry
-
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
Author:
Barry McGuire
-
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
Author:
John McCarthy
-
I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.
Author:
Thabo Mbeki
-
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
Author:
Harry Mathews
-
There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Author:
Cotton Mather
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
-
I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.
Author:
Billy Martin
-
I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
-
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Author:
Chuck Mangione
-
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Author:
Og Mandino
-
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Author:
Maxwell Maltz
-
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Author:
Maimonides
-
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Author:
Anna Magnani
-
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
Author:
Robert MacNeil
-
It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
-
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Author:
Ernst Mach
-
Reform, that we may preserve.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
-
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
-
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
Author:
Abbott Lowell
-
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Author:
Pierre Loti
-
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
-
Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.
Author:
Lee Loevinger
-
Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.
Author:
James Lind
-
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
-
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
-
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
-
I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.
Author:
Huey Lewis
-
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Author:
C. Lewis
-
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
Author:
Al Lewis
-
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
Author:
Charles Leland
-
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Author:
Annie Leibovitz
-
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
-
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
-
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Author:
Johann Lavater
-
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
Author:
James Laughlin
-
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Author:
Walter Lang
-
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Author:
Letitia Landon
-
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Author:
Jacques Lacan
-
When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Author:
Maggie Kuhn
-
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
Author:
Sofia Kovalevskaya
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
Author:
Ted Koppel
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
Author:
Eartha Kitt
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
Author:
William Kidd
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We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
Author:
John Keegan
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Author:
Diane Johnson
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There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.
Author:
Celia Johnson
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
Author:
Peter Jennings
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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Author:
Storm Jameson
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Author:
William James
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
Author:
Henry James
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
Author:
C. James
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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Author:
Charles Ives
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Author:
Eric Idle
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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.
Author:
Mark Hyman
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If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program.
Author:
Mark Hyman
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
Author:
Samuel Huntington
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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Author:
Joseph Howe
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Author:
Sam Houston
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
Author:
David Houston
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Author:
Horace
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I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.
Author:
William Hone
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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
Author:
Philip Hone
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
Author:
James Hogg
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Author:
Ralph Hodgson
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I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
Author:
Bernard Hinault
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We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Author:
John Heywood
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
Author:
Patricia Hewitt
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You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Author:
George Herman
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I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
Author:
Thierry Henry
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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
Author:
Alexander Henry
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Author:
Werner Heisenberg
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence.
Author:
John Haynes
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
Author:
John Hawkes
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The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Author:
Taylor Hanson
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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
Author:
Learned Hand
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
Author:
David Guterson
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It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.
Author:
Kay Gusmao
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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Author:
Alfred Griswold
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When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.
Author:
Bruce Greenwood
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But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Author:
Katherine Graham
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
Author:
Nikolai Gogol
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
Author:
Owen Glendower
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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
Author:
William Glasser
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Author:
Joseph Glanvill
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
Author:
William Garrison
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The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Author:
Peter Garrett
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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Author:
Galileo Galilei
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
Author:
Elizabeth Fry
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I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.
Author:
Jenny Frost
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
Author:
Cathy Freeman
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We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Author:
Felix Frankfurter
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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Author:
Marie France
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The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
Author:
Larry Flynt
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Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.
Author:
Ric Flair
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To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Author:
Ronald Fisher
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
Author:
Carrie Fisher