Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Arthur Eddington We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.".
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Adrian Edmondson We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) Over contact met buitenaardsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • R. W. Dickson We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Rahal We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Cohen We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Alexander Dubcek We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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