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"One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed."
"Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be."
"So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last."
"He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone."
"I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end"."
"I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."
"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."
"The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track."
"Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay."
"Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born."
"So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles."
"I think some of those guys might actually be better off if they had more wussy in them."
"Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?"
"I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being."
"Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be."
"Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life."
"God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us."
"I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway."
"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
"I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute."
