"You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next."
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"Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there."
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"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
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"It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might."
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"If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change."
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"I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow."
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"If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky."
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"Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?"
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"Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life."
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"Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed."
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"Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy."
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"My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out."
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"He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!"
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"No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book."
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"There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers."
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"He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen."
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"Might does not make right but it sure makes what is."
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"It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear."
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"I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public."
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"Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger."
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