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Like woolgathering and other empty pursuits, wistful might-have-beens had no place in my mind.
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Forget not that the History of Man is the Story of the Dragons, of the Nine who were born and the Seven who slept, played out upon a thousand threads in a million tapestries, of should-not-have-dones and might-have-beens.
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Mine was cluttered with the might-have-beens that could never be.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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When a genuinely good building arrives in a city filled with so much generic architecture, it's worth considering all the might-have-beens.
Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city Philip Kennicott 2010
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But even they have their own lost pasts, their might-have-beens.
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Whether or not there is another officer that could have done as well as Perry did is one of those 'might-have-beens' that historians are not prone to ask, Skaggs said.
Divers: Wreck of Perry's ship discovered off Rhode Island 2011
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Mine was cluttered with the might-have-beens that could never be.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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At least the Correa government will be able to boast of one mine after having effectively sabotaged all the “might-have-beens” by their tardiness.
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But even they have their own lost pasts, their might-have-beens.
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He's had health problems since, but still -- he's gotta be thinking about the might-have-beens right now, given the conventional wisdom that O'Donnell will lose to Democrat Chris Coons.
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