Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Henry George The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bob Riley The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Billy Graham The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich The men who make history have not time to write it.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Herbert N. Casson The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The mere brute pleasure of reading, the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Collier The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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