Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Charles E. Popplestone The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Burton Richter The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Kurt Cobain The sun is gone, but I have a light.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Havelock Ellis The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Henry Kissinger The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Woody Allen The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Ronald Reagan The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Callie Thorne The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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  • William Hazlitt The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Anne McCaffrey The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Benjamin Clementine The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Cam Newton The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Will Smith The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
    Will Smith
    American actor, film producer and rapper (born 1968) (1968 - )
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Vauvenargues The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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