Quotes with has-been

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  • Bill Dedman The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Scott The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Nikola Tesla The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Achille Poincelot The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Betty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Madden The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Thomas Paine The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Seneca The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Richard Nixon The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Billy Collins The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Benny Green The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bill Kristol The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
    Source: April 28, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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