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"This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too."
"I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name."
"Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world"
"You never know, I might get back into coaching someday."
"I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be."
"No matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous."
"I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said."
"I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes."
"For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur."
"It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."
"Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof."
"I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving."
"Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine."
"It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black."
"To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing."
"Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."
"I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels."
"We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world."
"Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me."
"I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself."
