"And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience."
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"There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois."
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"I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else."
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"If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur."
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"I don't wanna preempt an announcement next week. And there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And if I - say - that we're doing one thing. then the markets might interpret it differently from what it ends up being."
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"You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless."
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"If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel."
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"If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man."
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"The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of."
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"My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me."
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"If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here"."
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"It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing."
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"It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories."
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"There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it."
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"Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it."
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"Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
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"He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'."
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"Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this."
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"Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right."
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"I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely."
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