Quotes with has-been

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  • Hitopadesa No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ken Keyes Jr No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Nelson Mandela No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
    Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Nicholas Boileau No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Phillips Brooks No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Tacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • George Orwell No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Marian Wright Edelman No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Erickson No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Abdul Kalam No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Alfred E. Smith No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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