Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Horace Mann Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bill Hybels Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Boris Becker Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Beauprez Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
    Beatrix Potters Letters
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
    Selected Writings on Computing (1982) p. 101
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
    Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (1930 - 2002)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Billie Jean King That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Albert Camus That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Pittacus That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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