Has Beens Quotes - Page 20

• It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

  Gough Whitlam

  Political, Firsts, First Time

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• The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

  Theodor Adorno

  Taken, Heart, Successful

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.59, Verso

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• I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to die. In the meantime, he has a body that roots him to this time and this place.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Roots, Body

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• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  Edward T. Hall

  Life, Thinking, Intelligent

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• The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

  Aldo Leopold

  Successful, Men, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.229, Library of America

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• Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Writing, Suffering

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• Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

  Lou Reed

  Mother, Politics, Illegal

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.392, Da Capo Press

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• You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

  Jack Gantos

  Heart, Kids, Settling

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.153, Macmillan

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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• For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

  George Will

  Business, Government, Long

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• In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

  Michael Enzi

  Country, Business, Past

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• What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Years, Risk

  "Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Or The Master Of Disaster?" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Communism, Crime, Consideration

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• Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a good cause. Since most Americans don't know or care what the Constitution says, let alone what their ancestors thought it meant, the great liberal snow job has been very successful.

  Joseph Sobran

  Jobs, Successful, Government

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• Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

  Paul David Tripp

  Lying, Self, Law

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• "Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Perfection, Spirit

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• The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

  Colleen Houck

  Love You, Romance, Facts

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Quest: Tiger Saga”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

  David Caruso

  Jobs, Long, Sound

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• Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

  David Chalmers

  Psychology, Overcoming, Topics

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• Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Running, Years

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• English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

  David Crystal

  Latin, Greek, Vacuums

  "From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

  James Chanos

  Technology, Space, Difficult

  "Jim Chanos Is Finding Short Opportunities All Over The Place" by Rita Nazareth, www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  Jane Campion

  Careers, Important, Identity

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• We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Believe, Growth

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• So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Europe, Half, Return

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