Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Sweet is it to have done the thing one ought.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Donald Trump Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Herford Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Jim Rohn Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Jim Rohn Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Casnocha Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Ellen Gould White Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
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  • Sir Matthew Hale Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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