Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Umberto Eco When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 206
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Henry Miller Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • Bethany Mota Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Mae West Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Epictetus Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bill Clinton Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • KäThe Kollwitz Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
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  • Bill Hicks Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • James Russell Lowell Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Jane Austen Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Carl Sagan Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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