Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Aaron Sorkin A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Andrew Goodman A people must have dignity and identity.
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  • Bobby Seale A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Charles F. Kettering A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ben Katchor A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Hubert Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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