Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Ben Bernanke The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Arthur E. Waite The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Billy Burke The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • Oscar Wilde The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
    His Life and Wit
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mikhail Baryshnikov The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Bell Hooks The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Srully Blotnick The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.
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  • Benjamin Graham The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Anita Hill The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Herbert The eyes have one language everywhere.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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