Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Lord George Byron What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Beck What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 34
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bill Gross What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bono What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Ben Gibbard What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Tryon Edwards What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Pike What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ronald Reagan What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Jordan What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Walter Pater What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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  • Bill Clinton What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Carson What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Basil S. Walsh What we need is to use what we have.
    Basil S. Walsh
    American banker and author
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Cameron Diaz What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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