Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Vauvenargues The idle always have a mind to do something.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Lipton The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Glenda Jackson The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Agatha Christie The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
    Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Voltaire The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Betty Cuthbert The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Oscar Wilde The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Levin The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Barry Levinson The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alva Myrdal The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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