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  • Bill Dedman It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Josh Billings It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Robert Lynd It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are human beings.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Margaret Thatcher It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Martin Luther King It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Will Durant It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoff It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bertie Carvel It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carrie Fisher It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • John Updike It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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