Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Burton Richter What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Eugène Delacroix What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Angelina Grimke What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joseph Campbell What millions died that Caesar might be great?
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Corcoran What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Sigmund Freud What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Rosa Parks What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Shirley Lord What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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  • Henry David Thoreau What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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