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"It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does."
"Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results."
"Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades."
"I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity."
"I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love."
"Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets."
"I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone."
"How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds."
"So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation."
"She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known"
"O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known."
"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
"Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!."
"I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me."
"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight."
"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won."
"One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks."
"When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere."
"Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about."
"I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution."
