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"The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth."
"It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it"
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
"In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole."
"I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps."
"It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so."
"In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right."
"Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz."
"A dream inside a dream might not be a dream."
"It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint."
"The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?"
"My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it."
"when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this."
"and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it"
"When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen."
"I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be."
"We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced."
"Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might."
"I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take."
"I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do."
