"She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her"
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"Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!"
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"At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet."
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"Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed."
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"To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate."
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"God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker."
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"They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed."
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"Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been."
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"War knows no law except that of might."
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"If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown."
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"Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear."
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"I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless."
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"I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU"
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"We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow."
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"You might not be what you say you are, but what you say, you are."
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"The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me."
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"Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!"
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"He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad."
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"An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of acquiring still more capital. But, before a certain moment in historical time, it had never been easy for such individuals to do this successfully."
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"Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me."
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