Quotes with has-been

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  • Tom Robbins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Charles James Fox Humanity is the great leading feature of the mild and beneficent system of Christianity, and what has tended to render it such an inestimable blessing to mankind.
    Source: rede van 17 april 1794
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Earl Warren I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Chimamanda Adichie I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
    Source: We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bette Davis I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Stephen Hawking I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Edna Ferber I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Byron Dorgan I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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