Quotes with has-been

Quotes 5161 till 5180 of 5418.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Source: Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • William Mcilvanney Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
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  • Epictetus Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Boethius Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Bruno Maag Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Albrecht Durer Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Alexander Pope Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Boyle Roche Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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