Quotes with has-been

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ariel Sharon Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Carol Burnett It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Adam Sandler It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • Arthur Laffer It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Havelock Ellis It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Edward Gibbon It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • B. F. Skinner It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Henderson It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
    C.E.M. Joad
     
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