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"For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested."
"We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place."
"Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging."
"With luck, it might even snow for us."
"Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run."
"But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else."
"Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more."
"Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."
"The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives."
"Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
"For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week."
"But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
"Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not."
"U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced."
"I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service."
"To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might."
"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."
"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."
