Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Tacitus Forbidden things have a secret charm.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Brooke Burke Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bria Skonberg Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Brooke Burke Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once!
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Pericles Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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