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Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings

“Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.”

People Knows May States Waiting Black White Rooms Office Doctors South Stations Bus Black People Waiting Rooms

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.”

May Has Beens Republican Adults Democrat These Days Mike

Author:Randi Weingarten

“You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.”

Giving May Mean Matter Deals Violence Recourse Distasteful

Author:Anthony Zinni

“As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.”

Years Believe May Littles Persons I Believe Bits Numbers Direct Nasty

Author:Meles Zenawi

“Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.”

May Persons Stars Difficult Quality Difficult Things Emanate

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”

“I feel it's most important to keep it real and enjoy each moment, you know, take advantage of every opportunity life provides, because who knows what tomorrow may bring”

Knows Feels May Important Real Moments Opportunity Enjoy Tomorrow Advantage Keeping It Real

Author:C. R. Johnson

“There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.”

May Values Things To Do Noticing

Author:Teresa Heinz

“Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.”

People May Forgiving

Author:Umar

“I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.”

Thinking Feels May Important Self Ability Keys Mouths Tools Defense Fats Allowing Mechanism Sane Self Defense Starks Being Funny Uncontrollable Defense Mechanisms

Author:Jen Lancaster

“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.”

Knows May Ideas States Helping America Law Race Issues Masters Ideals Blue Surprise Germany Nazi Reproduction Eugenics Selective Nazi Germany Mein Kampf Blue Eyed

Author:James Morcan

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

May Two Motivation Certain Liberty Easier Gains Constant Mindset Fuel Expenses Temporary Uncertain Chimneys

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!”

May Perfect Existence Mines Cycles Rebirth Death And Rebirth

Author:SZA

“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.”

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

May School High School Surprise Arrested

Author:Pat Boone

“Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.”

Men Firsts May Space Hips Charm

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.”

“You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem”

May Seems Tree Walking Singing Bird Absurd Desert Pending

Author:Kiki Dimoula

“As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.”

Wells May Involved Species Discrimination Uncomfortable Phenomenon

Author:Will Self

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“May an elephant caress you with his toes”

May Toes Elephants Caress

Author:'Little' Jimmy Dickens

“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.”

People Should May Eye Liberty Dangerous Standing Army Jealous

Author:Samuel Adams

“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.”

Men May Jobs Political Opinion Growing Habit Saint Spots Stations Anarchy Factories Political Opinions Disgruntled

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

Years Wells May Whole School Values Week Summer Conviction Organized Camps Formal Summer Camp Whole Year School Work

Author:Charles William Eliot

“It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.”

Wells May Wish Interest Bears Politician Relation Schooled Vested Interests

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.”

Kind May Cities Mumbai

Author:Vikas Swarup

“My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.”

Ifs May Book Shows Light Voice Democratic Corruption Accountability Mechanism Brutality Highlights Voiceless Rectification

Author:Vikas Swarup

“Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.”

Heart May Culture Style More Money Tokyo Kyoto Osaka

Author:Vikas Swarup

“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.”

World Humans May Different Race Situation Revolution Train Human Race Emergencies World History Brake Grabbing Locomotives

Author:Walter Benjamin

“And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs”

Ifs May Three Secret Hair Sacred Stomach Swear

Author:Homer

“Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!”

World May Real Cutting Tongue Liars Everlasting Despicable Lasting Love Everlasting Love Real True

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

Ifs Men Years May Order Next Asks Plans Periods Thousand Draws Safety Reasonable Thousand Years Definite Next Day

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.”

Thinking May Life Is Alive Rights Blessing Inalienable Rights

Author:Terrence McNally

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

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