Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Carl Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Beth Henley The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Anna Lindh The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Zig Ziglar The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • John Stuart Mill The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • A. E. Housman The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bobby Scott The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. B. White The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Calvin Trillin The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Brooke Shields The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Billy Paul The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
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  • E. M. Forster The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bill Rancic The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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