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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
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.
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.
God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.
I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
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.
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.