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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Science and Scientists
Don Marquis

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
Love
John N. Mitchell

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Success
Wilson Mizner

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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Misfortunes
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Life and Living
Grandma Moses

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life and Living
Ogden Nash

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress
Ogden Nash

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I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
Punctuality
Lord Nelson

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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Concentration
Jack Nicklaus

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Success has always been a great liar.
Success
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
Glory
Thomas Paine

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
God
William Paley

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Fame
Cecil Parkinson

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
Experience
Persian Proverb

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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Dreams
Luigi Pirandello

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
Politicians and Politics
Platen

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry and Poets
Edgar Allan Poe

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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Writers and Writing
Ezra Pound

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Arts and Artists
Marcel Proust

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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Dreams
Man Ray

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My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Respectability
Mandy Rice-Davies

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
Faith
Adrian Rogers

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Husbands
Helen Rowland

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Truth
Utterly Russell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun