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"It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us."
"My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick"
"No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be."
"Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married."
"The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage."
"If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease."
"Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid."
"The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize."
"Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it."
"Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death."
"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."
"What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence."
"The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck."
"Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want"
"There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world.""
"An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one."
"One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything."
"Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong."
"Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe."
"Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat."
