Quotes with has-been

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  • Candice Millard As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Al Gore As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Marian Anderson As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Calamity Jane As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
    Bertil Ohlin
     
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Josh Billings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Stephen Hawking As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Mary Lou Retton As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Candice Millard As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Allan Bloom As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Men can argue in a very womanish way, too, when they are anima - possessed and have thus been transformed into the animus of their own anima.
    Source: Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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