Quotes with might-have-been

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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • M. Russell Ballard The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
    M. Russell Ballard
    American businessman and religious (2018 - )
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  • Will Durant The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Paul Hawken The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
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  • Burt Shavitz The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Keith The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bill Bixby The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Charles Lamb The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Roy L. Smith The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Henry Miller The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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