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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Stars Quotes , May Quotes

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Bells Quotes , May Quotes

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Quests Quotes , May Quotes

The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , May Quotes , Steps Quotes

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Looks Quotes , May Quotes

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Eugenics Quotes , May Quotes

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Genius Quotes , May Quotes

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , May Quotes , Kind Quotes

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , May Quotes

The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

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Tags : Theodore Kaczynski Quotes , Levels Quotes , May Quotes

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , May Quotes

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , May Quotes

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , War Quotes , May Quotes

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , World Quotes , May Quotes

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , War Quotes , May Quotes

It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , May Quotes , Minorities Quotes

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , May Quotes , Action Quotes