"I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher."
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"Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things."
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"I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware."
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"I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee."
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"Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you."
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"If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it."
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"I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State."
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"Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one."
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"Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward."
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"There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on."
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"I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world."
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"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
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"The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day."
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"Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe."
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"My writing is full of lives I might have led."
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"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."
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"To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you."
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"Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted."
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"Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard."
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"Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them."
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