Quotes with has-been

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  • Mark Twain Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Knight Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Parr Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Rancic Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bergen Evans Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Dorothy Parker Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Horowitz With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
    Source: Ban Ki-moon's statement on the Awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jane Austen With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bria Skonberg With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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