Quotes with has-been

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    Source: A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Aaron Siskind We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
    Source: Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
    Aaron Siskind
     
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
    Source: Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Salman Rushdie We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Ansel Adams We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bill Clinton We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bob Menendez We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Graham We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Mark Twain We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Desmond Morris We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Source: Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
    Bernard Lown
     
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  • Andrew Cohen We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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