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"How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting."
"I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress."
"Friends might be rare but they’re not irreplaceable"
"The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for."
"Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
"The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance."
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease."
"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."
"The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl."
"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental."
"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods."
"The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant."
"Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation."
"A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project."
"No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts."
"A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words."
"Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day."
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds"
