Quotes with has-been

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  • Nikola Tesla From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Winston Churchill From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
    Source: Iron Curtain Speach, 05-03-1946
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Charles Sumner From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Bernie Sanders From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Karl Marx From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Brantley Gilbert From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Abdus Salam From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Bryan Burrough From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Olson From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Katherine F. Gerould Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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  • Bruce Feirstein Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    Source: The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, man is very useful.
    He can fly and he can kill.
    But he has one defect:
    He can think.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • John Gray Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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