#been

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

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I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#been #countries #farewell #go #i

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#books #done #lying #magic #mankind

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #cherish #citizens #death #groups

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#certain #hardly #important #important way #participated

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

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So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#before #effect #good #good sense #had

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#been #four #freedoms #hungry #hungry man