Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Max Stirner Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Casey Affleck Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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  • Caroline Knapp Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bob Gibson Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Seneca Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carl Lewis Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • James Thurber Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Antonin Scalia Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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