Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Boris Johnson It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Alice Miller It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Kin Hubbard It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • James Mackintosh It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
    James Mackintosh
    British politician (1765 - 1832)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bob Odenkirk It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Allen Klein It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • René Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Adrian Cronauer It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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