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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,

"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."

"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."

"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."

"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 may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."

"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
May,

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
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"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."


"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."


"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."


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


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