Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Al Capp The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Billy Corgan The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
    Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • James Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bryan Ferry The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Albion W. Small The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Bud Grant The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • John Paul II The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bernard De Voto The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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  • Barry Commoner The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Mann The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Orwell The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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