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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,

"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd."

"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
May,

"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."

"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."
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"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."


"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."


"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."


"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
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