"I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children."
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"Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have."
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"You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful."
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"The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth."
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"There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature."
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"Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil."
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"Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways."
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"I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed."
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"Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist."
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"If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand."
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"Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents."
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"I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it."
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"But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule."
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"You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore."
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"It also makes me worry about photos of me that exist that I might not even know about. How do I appear in these unwitting photographs? Who is taking them, without my knowledge or consent, and from where?"
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"An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general."
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"Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right."
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"I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me."
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"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom."
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