Quotes with has-been

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  • Ben Johnson The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Whishaw The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Boyle Roche The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Bill Keller The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Alan Parsons The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Norman Angell The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
    Source: The Great Illusion (1910)
    Norman Angell
    English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member (1872 - 1967)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Corker The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Olson The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Ashley Montagu The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Billy Sunday The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
    Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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