Quotes with might-have-been

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  • John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Arthur Holly Compton To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Vauvenargues To possess taste, one must have some soul.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Billy Corgan To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Demosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Jean Anouilh To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • W. Clement Stone To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Campbell Brown To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Lee To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ben Horowitz To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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