Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Thomas Carlyle The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Karl Marx The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Brooke Shields The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Antonio Perez The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.
    Antonio Perez
    Spanish statesman, secretary King Phillip II (1540 - 1611)
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  • Agnes Repplier The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • John Ruskin The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Bob Graham The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Angelina Grimké The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Carole King The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
    Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Cary Fowler The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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