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Has Beens Quotes (page 63)

Werner Heisenberg quote: "Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been..."
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. Werner Heisenberg
Isaac Newton quote: "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due..."
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent Isaac Newton
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either. Mortimer Adler
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman
Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise. Evelyn Waugh
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the..."
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality. Friedrich Nietzsche
Walter Benjamin quote: "What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual."
What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual. Walter Benjamin
The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written. Harold Bloom
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694) Isaac Newton
The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate. Carl Sagan
Charles Simic quote: "One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for..."
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. Charles Simic
Merle Shain quote: "It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew..."
It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry Merle Shain
An odd by-product of my loss is that I’m aware of being an embarrassment to everyone I meet. At work, at the club, in the street, I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they’ll ‘say something about it’ or not. I hate it if they do, and if they don’t. Some funk it altogether. R. has been avoiding me for a week. I like best the well brought-up young men, almost boys, who walk up to me as if I were a dentist, turn very red, get it over, and then edge away to the... C. S. Lewis
At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing health, riches, and wisdom; the infallibility of which has been for generations verified by the enormous fortunes constantly amassed by chimney-sweepers and other persons who get up early and go to bed betimes. Charles Dickens
Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he [Holmes], 'but it is a common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you. Arthur Conan Doyle

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