Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Thomas Jefferson How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • William Shakespeare How poor are they that have no patience.
    Othello (1622)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William E. Rothschild How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
    Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Derek Wall How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup How to test? is a question that cannot be answered in general. When to test? however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
    The C++ Programming Language. p. 712
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Terence How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Maya Angelou How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Filner However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Carl Sagan Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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