Quotes with might-have-been

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  • William Cowper Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, j live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Bill Lipinski Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Robert Herrick Bid me to weep, and I will weep, while I have eyes to see.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Caroll Spinney Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Ben Horowitz Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Smith Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • August Wilson Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Anne Stevenson Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • James Russell Lowell Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Walter Benjamin Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Bai Ling Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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