Quotes with has-been

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  • Ben Simmons LeBron's been like a big brother to me, watching me play and giving me pointers on just little things. I really look up to him.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Source: Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bob Latta Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Source: Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • William Shakespeare Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Golda Meir Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Louis Pasteur Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Henry George Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Basil of Caesarea Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Camille Paglia Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
    Source: As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Arianna Huffington Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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