"Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him."
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"If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them."
"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."
"All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also."
"If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself."
"Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'"
"Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine."
"I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise."
"Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush."
"The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life."
"People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you."
"When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well."
"And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment."
"Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love."
"You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him."
"He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways."
"When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do."
"Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse."
"When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace."
"Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life."