Quotes with has-been

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  • Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Richardson The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Henry Miller The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • A. J. Muste The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Tom Wolfe The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Atom Egoyan The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Brendan Francis The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Ivan Illich The public school has become the established church of secular society.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • James Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Audre Lorde The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Cam Newton The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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