Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Josh Billings I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sylvia Plath I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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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.
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  • Ralph Ellison I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
    Ralph Ellison
    American writer and essayist (1914 - 1994)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • William Golding I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • William Shakespeare I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Nora Ephron I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Hermann Hesse I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Anna Freud I am glad that I do not have any children.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.
    New York Post (1 May 1959)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Javier Perez de Cuellar I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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  • Henry Ford I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Benito Mussolini I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
    As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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