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Letter "M" » might-have-been
«We always may be what we might have been.»
«We are fortunate to have inherited an institution which we certainly should never have had the intelligence to create. We might have been landed with something like the American Senate.»
«The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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might-have-been, on the one hand, ratio
«The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'»
«Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.»
«There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«War seems to be part of the history of humanity. As we look at the situation of our planet in the past, countries, regions and even villages were economically independent of one another. Under those circumstances, the destruction of our enemy might have been a victory for us. There was a a relevance to violence and war. However, today we are so interdependent that the concept of war has become out dated. When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer relevant. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighbors! We cannot ignore their interests! Doing so would ultimately cause us to suffer. I therefore think that the concept of violence is now unsuitable. Nonviolence is the appropriate method.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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«Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people. But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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might-have-been, preacher, rejoice, solace, solaced, solaces
«The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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dependent, dependent on, faithfully, might-have-been, owing, partly, tombs
«Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.»
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