Quotes with might-have-been

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  • John Ruskin It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Billy Higgins It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Ben Carson It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Havelock Ellis It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Edward Gibbon It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • B. F. Skinner It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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  • Bryant H. McGill It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bette Davis It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Henry Ford It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Abdul Kalam It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Gerard De Nerval It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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