Quotes with might-have-been

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  • W.E. Charming A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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  • Charles M. Schwab A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • C. S. Forester A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Anne Seward A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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  • Bobby Flay A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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