"Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined."
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"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."
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"I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be."
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"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."
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"Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram."
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"I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next."
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"I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it."
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"A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets."
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"I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct."
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"She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become."
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"If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group."
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"In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt."
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"If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down"
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"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with."
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"I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp."
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"Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with."
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"So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be."
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"Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope."
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