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"And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world."
"Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it."
"I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces."
"Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen."
"It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement."
"So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too."
"I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon."
"Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear."
"I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon."
"...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best."
"You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say."
"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."
"There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death."
"When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)"
"It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might."
"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."
"A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green."
"Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach."
"Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up."
"Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you."
