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The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Author:
Mortimer Zuckerman
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That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.
Author:
John Zorn
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.
Author:
Ron Ziegler
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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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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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!
Author:
Jason Zebehazy
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There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
Author:
Robin Zander
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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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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Author:
Edward Young
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Author:
Edward 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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May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
Author:
Isabel Yosito
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We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
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At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Author:
William Yeats
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Author:
William Yeats
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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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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Author:
William Yeats
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
Author:
William Yeats
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Author:
Carl Yastrzemski
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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Author:
Martin Yan
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Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
Author:
Francis Xavier
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Author:
Philip Wylie
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Author:
William Wycherley
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Author:
Frank Wright
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Author:
Francis Wright
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Author:
Francis Wright
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Author:
Frances Wright
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Author:
Frances Wright
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Author:
Fay Wray
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Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that.
Author:
Rose Woods
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.
Author:
George Woodcock
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I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Author:
Anna Wong
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
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I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
Author:
Lee Womack
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
Author:
Markus Wolf
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Author:
Robert Wise
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
Author:
John Wise
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
Author:
William Wirt
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Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Author:
Robert 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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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Author:
Charles 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 see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
Author:
William Wills
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Author:
Serena Williams
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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.
Author:
Juan Williams
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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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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Author:
Bern Williams
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People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
Author:
Bern Williams
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
Author:
Anthony Williams
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Author:
Emma Willard
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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
Author:
George Will
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It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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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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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
Author:
Norbert Wiener
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The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Author:
Norbert Wiener
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Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Author:
Edward Whymper
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
Author:
George Whitefield
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
Author:
Gilbert White
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Author:
James Whistler
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If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
Author:
Wil Wheaton
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Author:
Richard Whately
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Author:
Edward Weston
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I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Author:
Mae West
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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Author:
H. Wells
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His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
Author:
John Webster
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
Author:
Eberhard Weber
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Author:
Alec Waugh
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Author:
Isaac Watts
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
Author:
Diane Watson
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Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
Author:
George Washington
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Author:
George Washington
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Author:
George Washington
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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
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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Author:
Earl Warren
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Author:
Earl Warren
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
Author:
William Ward
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I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
Author:
Burt Ward
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
Author:
J. Walters
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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
Author:
Ulrich Walter
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The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Author:
Alice Walker
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I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
Author:
Alexander Walker
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
Author:
George Wald
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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Author:
Jane Wagner
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I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Author:
Voltaire
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Author:
Voltaire
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Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
Author:
Paul Volcker
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Author:
Virgil
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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Author:
Virgil
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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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
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Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
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George Villiers
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Jules Verne
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You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
Author:
Jhonen Vasquez
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
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Giorgio Vasari
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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
Author:
Amy Vanderbilt
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Author:
Paul Valery
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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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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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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Author:
Samuel Ullman
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Author:
Samuel Ullman
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May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Author:
Mo Udall
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Lao Tzu
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
Author:
John Tyler
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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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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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Author:
Mark Twain
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Author:
Thomas Tusser
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You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
Author:
William Turner
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I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
Author:
Janine Turner
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Author:
Alan Turing
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Author:
Mao Tung
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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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First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Author:
Donald Trump
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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Author:
Lyman Trumbull
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Author:
Harry Truman
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You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
Author:
Bess Truman
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.
Author:
David Trimble
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Author:
Thomas Traherne
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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.
Author:
Benicio Toro
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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
Author:
Mel Torme
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Author:
J. Tolkien
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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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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al Gore Kool-Aid' concerning global climate change.
Author:
Earl Titcomb, Jr.
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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Author:
Howard Thurman
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Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
Author:
John Thorn
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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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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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Author:
Theophrastus
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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
Author:
Theocritus
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Author:
William Thackeray
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I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.
Author:
Joe Tex
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Author:
Nikola Tesla
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Author:
Saint Teresa
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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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
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A day may sink or save a realm.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
Author:
John Templeton
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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
Author:
William Temple
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Author:
Edward Teller
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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
Author:
Edwin Teale
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I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Author:
Major Taylor
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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Author:
Henry Taylor
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
Author:
A. Taylor
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We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.
Author:
Bernie Taupin
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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
Author:
Edward Tatum
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Author:
Allen Tate
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Author:
Allen Tate
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
Author:
Allen Tate
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
Author:
Allen Tate
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Author:
Oliver Tambo
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Author:
Ali Talib
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They may be a little more high brow than we are.
Author:
David Talbot
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
Author:
William Taft
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Author:
William Taft
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Author:
Tacitus
