"All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground."
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"... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate."
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"Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation."
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"For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature."
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"A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am."
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"Kill one and you might as well kill 21."
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"If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!"
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"A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"
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"A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller."
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"You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end."
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"Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do."
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"America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything."
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"Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible."
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"Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers."
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"When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings."
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"I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan."
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"Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain)."
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"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might."
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"Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'"
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"I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things."
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