Quotes with has-been

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles L. Allen The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Bono The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
    Ben Cardin
     
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bayard Taylor The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dorothy Nevill The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Adrian Cronauer The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Arundhati Roy The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • W. C. Fields The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Carlos Mesa The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
    Carlos Mesa
     
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Auberon Herbert The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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