"Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it."
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"If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen."
"As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been."
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
"There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing."
"His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."
"The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit."
"We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?"
"Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change."
"Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise."
"13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable."
"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation"
"Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief."
"He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it."
"I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of."
"No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with."
"She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."
"Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study."
"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."
"Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil."