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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

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.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.

The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.

The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.