Quotes with has-been

Quotes 4721 till 4740 of 5418.

  • Ann Rule Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brad Feld Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Alfred Korzybski Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    Source: The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • E. M. Cioran Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bono U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bill Flores Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Burgess Owens Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bob Filner Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
    Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 2, p. 41
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carol Bellamy UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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