"People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me."
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"The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all."
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"Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole."
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"All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew."
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"He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile."
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"Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise."
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"She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours."
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"Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel."
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"So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny."
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"See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all."
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"When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise."
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"If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill."
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"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself."
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"Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder"
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"I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi."
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"The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals."
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"There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in."
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"Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know."
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"I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's."
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"When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might've caused a lot of anxiety just come and go."
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