It has been said that no single phrase was more popular with the WTS writing department. Here are some examples over 25 years, just from the pages of AWAKE!.
Enjoy.
AWAKE! 9/22/1970 "YOU CAN EAT WELL FOR LESS"
It has been said that there are more than 1,500 ways to serve this common commodity.
AWAKE! 12/8/1970 "THE RISE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD POWER"
It has been said that one person out of every five in the world was a British subject.
AWAKE! 12/22/1970 "HOW IS SCIENCE AFFECTING YOUR LIFE?"
Indeed, it has been said that there is no water or land, or life of any kind that has not been affected by DDT.
AWAKE! 2/8/1972 "STAR OF THE DAY"
If man knew how to use it effectively, it has been said that the sun could provide one and a half horsepower of energy for every square yard of the earth on which the sun shines.
AWAKE! 2/8/1972 "GUARD AGAINST VD POLLUTION"
It has been said that few adolescents with VD seem to have good relations with their parents.
AWAKE! 2/22/1972 "IS GOD IN YOUR MARRIAGE?"
So it has been said with no small measure of truth that man gives affection to get 'sex,' and the woman gives 'sex' to get affection and love.
AWAKE! 2/22/1972 "ADVANCING IN WISDOM"
It has been said that as a person becomes older and wiser, he often talks less but says more.
AWAKE! 8/8/1972 "LET'S HAVE A HEART-TO-HEART TALK""
It has been said that 70 percent of communication between persons is nonverbal, that is, by gestures and actions, rather than words.
AWAKE! 11/8/1972 "WATCHING THE WORLD"
Possibly 15 percent of the drivers killed in highway accidents may be suicides, it has been said.
AWAKE! 12/8/1972 "TEEN-AGE MARRIAGE - HOW WISE?"
It has been said that such things "discipline him as man-made laws could never do."
AWAKE! 1/8/1973 "BAMBOO - ASIA'S TOWERING GRASS"
Its uses are so many that it has been said that the lives of Far Eastern peoples would be totally altered if bamboo did not exist.
AWAKE! 3/22/1973 "DO NOT UNDERRATE THE CARROT"
It has been said that "food is your best medicine," and in this respect carrots are no exception.
AWAKE! 9/22/1973 "LIFE AMONG THE ORCHARDS"
It has been said that this is one of the most delightful areas in Canada, located as it is about 280 highway miles east of the metropolis of Vancouver.
AWAKE! 1/22/1974 "LOOKING INTO THE WORLD OF SMALL THINGS"
It has been said that, while the universe is of unimaginable bigness, perhaps approaching infinity, the world of small things is likewise unfathomable.
AWAKE! 3/8/1974 "FACED WITH THE THREAT OF RAPE"
Moreover, it has been said that "psychologically, rape is the most traumatic of crimes against women, and for many victims, the police investigation that follows is even more shattering"-no doubt one reason why more rapes are not reported to the police.
AWAKE! 3/22/1974 "THE WORLD'S LARGEST LIVING THINGS"
It has been said: "It is no uncommon thing to see trees that have been bearing seed year after year for one thousand years or more yet show no reproduction beneath them."-Big Trees, Walter Fry and John R. White, page 59.
AWAKE! 8/22/1974 "ENERGY SUPPLIES IN ABUNDANCE"
So great is the power in the atom, it has been said, that the fission of a piece of uranium no heavier than a loaf of bread and smaller than a golf ball can provide as much energy as 2,300,000 pounds of coal.
AWAKE! 10/8/1974 "WATCHING THE WORLD"
A woman's work, it has been said, is never done.
AWAKE! 1/8/1975 "AN INTERESTING TOUR OF THE VATICAN"
It has been said that a visitor can walk Vatican City's length in about eight minutes, but could not view all its treasures of art and learning in a lifetime.
AWAKE! 3/22/1975 "SHOULD YOU CONSULT A SPIRIT MEDIUM?"
Concerning the nature of these occurrences it has been said: "The medium entranced is also sometimes disturbing to the spectators. It is not a pleasingly aesthetic sight-especially not during a materialization, for ectoplasm exudes from her mouth and body in the nature of a gauzy, foggy, smokelike substance from which figures are formed by the spirit chemists."-They Have Found a Faith, by Marcus Bach.
AWAKE! 6/8/1975 "THE AMAZING ABILITY OF HEARING"
Not without good reason, it has been said of the human ear: "If an engineer were to duplicate its function, he would have to compress into approximately one cubic inch a sound system that included an impedance matcher, a wide-range mechanical analyzer, a mobile relay-and-amplification unit, a multichannel transducer to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, a system to maintain a delicate hydraulic balance, and an internal two-way communications system.
AWAKE! 6/22/1975 "LEARNING TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF"
It has been said: "The fact that man, everywhere at all times, from the beginning to the present day, has felt the impulse to call upon something he believed to be higher and more powerful than himself, shows that religion is innate and should be scientifically recognized.
AWAKE! 6/22/1975 "RESIST BAD THOUGHTS"
It has been said that temptations will certainly come to your door, but you are to blame if you invite them to stay for dinner.
AWAKE! 11/8/1975 "HOW TO MAKE RETIREMENT REWARDING"
It has been said that for a man to enjoy his meals he must have someone to cook for him, and for a woman to enjoy eating she must have someone for whom she can cook.
AWAKE! 12/8/1975 "WHAT ABOUT FEVERS?"
For this reason it has been said that a fever is an elevated temperature, the result of a disturbance of the central temperature-regulating mechanism in the brain.
AWAKE! 5/8/1976 "GO TO THE ANT"
Interestingly, it has been said: "Outstanding in any typical colony is the queen; she is not a ruler in any sense of the word, but is the mother, and frequently the founder, of the colony.
AWAKE! 10/8/1976 "CUNNING NUNTER OF FIELD AND FOREST"
On this point it has been said: "Even after several generations in captivity foxes are not really tamed or domesticated.
AWAKE! 12/8/1976 "WATCHING THE WORLD"
"A picture is worth a thousand words," it has been said.
AWAKE! 12/22/1976 "ARE THEY IDOLATROUS DECORATIONS?"
However, The Migration of Symbols by G. d'Alviella says: "It has been said, with good reason, that the Winged Globe is the Egyptian symbol par excellence."
AWAKE! 2/22/1977 "EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST"
These examples illustrate why it has been said that 'East is East and West is West and never the twain will meet.'
AWAKE! 3/22/1977 "THE 'LAUGHING HYENA' AND HIS KIN"
It has been said that hyenas will attack and kill humans.
AWAKE! 5/22/1979 "A COMPUTERIZED SOCIETY - SCIENCE FICTION OR REALITY?"
It has been said that 'he who controls the information has the power,' and many are worried about this aspect of a computerized society.
AWAKE! 6/8/1979 "SAILING SHIPS - PAST AND PRESENT"
It has been said that it represents the ultimate in aerodynamic efficiency.
AWAKE! 1/8/1981 "LIFE CAN BE BETTER NOW!"
'A habit,' it has been said, 'may at first be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but, if not resisted, it soon binds us with chains of steel.'
AWAKE! 4/8/1981 "CHILDREN - DOES IT REALLY MATTER HOW YOU ACT?"
It has been said that it is "probably a thousand times easier" to have self-control if one never commits that first act of fornication than it is to stop later.
AWAKE! 5/22/1981 "'AFTER THE FLOWERS, THE STONES' - ON THE SOCCER FIELD"
Jokingly, it has been said, "If Macumba [voodoo rites] really had power, the soccer tournaments in the State of Bahia would always end in a tie," because of the large number of rites performed on behalf of each team.
AWAKE! 6/22/1981 "THE SHUTTLE - A NEW APPROACH TO SPACE"
About one third of the flights are booked by the military, and, in fact, it has been said that without the military, the shuttle would have been scuttled long ago.
AWAKE! 7/22/1981 "STAYING YOUNG WHILE GROWING OLDER"
It has been said that a person starts growing old the day he begins to worry about it.
AWAKE! 11/8/1981 "GLIMPSES OF IFUGAO"
If all the narrow fields were stretched out end to end, it has been said, they would reach halfway around the globe.
AWAKE! 2/22/1982 "IS MAN INCAPABLE OF PEACE?"
It has been said that the world has known only 26 days of peace since the end of World War II.
AWAKE! 10/22/1982 "TV - ITS IMPACT ON THE MODERN WORLD"
It has been said that television has had a greater impact on the lives and thoughts of people than has any other invention since the printing press.
AWAKE! 1/22/1983 "THERE ARE WAYS TO AVOID ROBBERY"
It has been said that a man's home is his castle.
AWAKE! 6/8/1983 "WHAT HOPE FOR A COMPLETE SOLUTION?"
For instance, it has been said that "Britain's smokiest, grimiest" factory was allowed by the government to continue polluting because, reportedly, it provides work for nearly 4,000 persons, so closing it would hurt local employment.
AWAKE! 8/22/1983 "PUTTING AN END TO PUTTING IT OFF"
It could cost one friends, a job and even, it has been said, one's marriage.
AWAKE! 4/8/1984 "WILL NONVIOLENCE EVER BE A WORLD REALITY?"
It has been said that education should have as its goal the formation of character-and, we could add, the formation of values.
AWAKE! 8/22/1984 "THEY EAT A LOT OF CORN"
In fact, it has been said that the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas of Central and South America owed their culture to the abundant yields of maize.
AWAKE! 2/8/1985 "DOGS - ALWAYS MAN'S BEST FRIEND?"
It has been said that dogs are the only animals that will learn to obey in exchange for mere praise and petting.
AWAKE! 5/8/1985 "LIFE IN A BIG COMPANY"
It has been said, therefore, that the Japanese sense of morality is based not on right or wrong but on being acceptable or unacceptable.
AWAKE! 11/8/1985 "PAPER - THAT VERSATILE PRODUCT!"
It has been said that the progress of a modern society can be measured by its paper consumption.
AWAKE! 8/8/1986 "SHOULD I FOLLOW THE LATEST FAD?"
It has been said that they can cause lower back pain and difficulty in bending, symptoms of what the American Family Physician calls the break-dance back syndrome.
AWAKE! 11/22/1986 "WHY SHOULD I ACCEPT MY PARENTS' RELIGION?"
In fact, it has been said that no philosophy can compare with the "eternal truths" found in the Bible.
AWAKE! 8/22/1987 "WHY DO MY THINGS HAVE TO BE SO NEAT?"
It has been said that man is a creature of habits.
AWAKE! 1/6/1988 "SAFE DRIVING - THE URGENT NEED"
IT HAS been said of driving that "there is simply no other activity which presents scope for so much mayhem and suffering, but demands so little real sustained training and responsibility."
AWAKE! 6/22/1988 "STAYING HEALTHY - THE NATURAL APPROACH"
Remember, too, that what works for one may not work for another, for which reason it has been said that 'one man's meat is another man's poison.'
AWAKE! 11/22/1988 "THE SOCINIANS - WHY DID THEY REJECT THE TRINITY?"
It has been said that the anti-Socinian literature that these works inspired over the next two centuries could fill a library!
AWAKE! 3/8/1989 "MYTHICAL GODS WITHOUT MERIT"
It has been said that ancient Greeks viewed the Iliad "as a source of moral, and even practical, instruction.
AWAKE! 7/8/1990 "BULLFIGHTING - ART OR OUTRAGE?"
It has been said that this stage of the fight "is not really a struggle between a man and a bull but rather the struggle of a man with himself: how close will he dare to let the horns come, how far will he go to please the crowd?"
AWAKE! 3/22/1991 "CARING FOR THE AGED - A GROWING PROBLEM"
It has been said that years ago one mother could take care of 11 children; now 11 children can't take care of one mother.
AWAKE! 4/8/1991 "CAN MAN AND BEAST LIVE IN PEACE?"
It has been said that the African elephant is too wild to domesticate.
AWAKE! 5/22/1991 "HAS TELEVISION CHANGED YOU?"
Yet, it has been said that people today read with less patience, that their attention soon flags if they are not bombarded with flashy visual images.
AWAKE! 6/8/1991 "GOSSIP - HOW TO AVOID HURTING YOURSELF AND OTHERS"
It has been said that "conversation is an exercise of the mind, but gossiping is merely an exercise of the tongue."
AWAKE! 8/8/1992 "CYBERNETICS - AN OLD IDEA COMES OF AGE"
It has been said that up to 80 percent of a robot can be reused once its computer is fed programs updated for a new assignment.
AWAKE! 1/22/1993 "EARTH'S RESCUE NEAR AT HAND"
As it has been said, 'We did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it.
AWAKE! 8/8/1993 "THE PERFECT MORAL GUIDE"
Interestingly, it has been said that ethical behavior "can be learned through good example, . . . or just 'being with' ethical people."
AWAKE! 8/22/1993 "YET ANOTHER ECOLOGICAL TRAGEDY"
IT HAS been said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but that does not apply to oil tankers.
AWAKE! 3/22/1994 "THE CITY HAVING REAL FOUNDATIONS"
Washington, it has been said, "reflects the worst and best of America."
AWAKE! 5/8/1994 "WATCHING THE WORLD"
It has been said that eating habaneros makes you feel like your head has been separated from the rest of your body.
AWAKE! 7/8/1994 "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA"
It has been said that the famous soprano Maria Callas, who often sang here at La Scala during the '50's, began to decline after undergoing rigid dieting to slim down.
AWAKE! 7/22/1994 "THE DECAY OF MANNERS"
It has been said that the better a society is, the less law it needs.
AWAKE! 6/8/1995 "DOES IT PAY TO GO INTO DEBT?"
It has been said: "A man in debt is caught in a net."
AWAKE! 7/8/1995 "WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT BAD BREATH?"
It has been said that these gases give our breath an odor very similar to the odor of a skunk.
AWAKE! 11/8/1995 "THE TAWNY OWL BY HADRIAN'S WALL"
It has been said that from its perch 50 feet [15 m] up in a tree, an owl is capable of not only seeing a mouse but also hearing it rustling in the grass.
Edited by - Nathan Natas on 25 June 2002 8:10:31