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"One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment."
"It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life."
"If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass."
"A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others."
"I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow."
"The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months."
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might."
"A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes."
"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
"Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might."
"Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt."
"I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts."
"I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it"
"If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within."
"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
"Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?"
"I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake."
"The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter."
"Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you."
"If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood."
