Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Susan Sontag Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Benjamin Stockham Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.
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  • Anne Dudley Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Burt Rutan Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bjork Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Burnie Burns Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Doug Larson Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Ben Shapiro Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Billy Collins Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Mark Twain Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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