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"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."

"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
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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"Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else."

"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."

"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires."
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