Quotes with has-been

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  • Henry James Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bob Woodward Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bjarke Ingels Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Antonio Guterres Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
    Source: Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Napoleon Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Susan Sontag Taste has no system and no proofs.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bill Ayers Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Antony Hewish Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Julie Burchill Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Jackson Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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