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This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.