Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Atom Egoyan These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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  • Andy Warhol They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Barney Frank They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bella Abzug They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Socrates They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Robert Frost They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Carl Hiaasen They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • William Penn They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bobby Sands They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Bobby Fischer They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Wallace Stevens They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carter G. Woodson They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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