Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Lazarus Long No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • B. F. Skinner No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Hitopadesa No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Boyd Rice No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Euripides Noble fathers have noble children.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Aldous Huxley Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Affleck Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ben Carson Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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