Quotes with might-have-been

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  • George Eliot Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Samuel Pepys Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bernard Berenson Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Jim Rohn Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Olson Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Kissinger Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • John Ciardi Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • George F. Will Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alexander Herzen Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Louise Erdrich Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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