Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Jean Paul Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bill Dedman New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Cook New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Oscar Wilde Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • C. M. Ward No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Lyman Beecher No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Louis de Bernieres No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 104
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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