Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Brad Delson The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Bob Mould The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Toni Morrison The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bruce Sterling The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Jean Rostand The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • Buenaventura Durruti The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Thucydides The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • Don Herold The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Franklin P. Jones The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Victor Hugo The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Byron Dorgan The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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