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"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."
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"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."
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"To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami."
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"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
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"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."
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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
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"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets."
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"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade."
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
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"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."
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"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
Happiness
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it."
Balance
"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
Cause
"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
Action
"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
Heart
"God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect."
God
"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
Compassion
"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
Desire
"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
Love
"Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others."
Interest
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