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May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.
It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a stretch.
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."
I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
They might be kittens," she said hopefully. "They're stalking us." "They might be shy." "I don't think it's kittens, Valkyrie." "Puppies, then?
There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.
A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.
My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.
Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.
Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.
Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.
Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.