Quotes with might-have-been

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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Charlotte Brontë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Condon It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Aristotle It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Winston Churchill It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Josh Billings It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • G. B. Burgin It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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  • Anita Brookner It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ansel Adams It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bob Latta It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Alice Walker It is natural to want to have a future.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Richard Nixon It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Burgess Owens It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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