Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Been Quotes from famous persons: Sonia Sotomayor, Marie Curie, William Osler, Ville Valo, John Keats. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Been Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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It’s been a hell of a roller-coaster ride for me.
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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
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The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
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Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
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I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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Baseball has been very good to me.
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I’m a King. Regardless of what I’ve been through and what I’ve done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
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Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.
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Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
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Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
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My whole life has been one big improvisation.
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People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
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Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
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I’ve never been cool – and I don’t care.
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Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.
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The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
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I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
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Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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‘Emergencies‘ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
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Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it’s a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts – it’s fuel for my creative process.
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Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
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It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people‘s lives… for that I give thanks.
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In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
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My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
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Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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I was never a Certified Public Accountant… I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
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I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
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It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
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Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That’s always been my thing.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.
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I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
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All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
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I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
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My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
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I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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Not everybody’s journey is easy, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile if you can’t see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you’ve been through, what kind of scars you have.
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I’ve been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.
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‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
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I’ve been in many auditions thinking, ‘God, do I have to take my shirt off?’
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I am overwhelmed with the love I have been receiving.
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I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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I’ve been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn’t do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don’t think I’d want 10 songs to bring with me.
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
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There’s no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that’s been the realization of the past few years for me.
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I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.
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Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.
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I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
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I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
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God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.
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Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
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After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
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Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
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The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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I have to think that I think it’s always been a horse race between this administration‘s temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they’re coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren’t conservative. These guys are radicals.
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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
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Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
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Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!
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I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.
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There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone’s business.
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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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All religions have been made by men.
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I don’t get recognized that much. That’s the best part of it. I tend to get things like, ‘You sound a lot like that guy on ‘Deadwood.’ And that’s lovely. I’ve been very fortunate. No giggling, screaming girls. None of that.
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There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
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The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
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Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
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Football has been my life and Real Madrid my home and together we have lived unique moments.
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I feel like anything I’m doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I’ve always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
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Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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I’m really thankful to everyone who has been part of my journey.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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I’ve been through all the bad parts of the streets.
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
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I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
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I’ve never been a bad boy.
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There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States – alcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
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For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
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It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.
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The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There’s no doubt in my heart.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it’s not about truth and justice or balance. It’s about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you’re putting the wrong person behind bars.
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Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I’ve been blessed to experience such a lot.
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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.
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I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
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I see possibilities in everything. For everything that’s taken away, something of greater value has been given.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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‘Pose’ has basically been a trip for everyone. We’re all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we’ve embarked on the journey together.
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I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
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It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
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It’s been so long since I’ve had sex I’ve forgotten who ties up whom.
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Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we’re in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?
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I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.
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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
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I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I’ve been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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It’s been an honor to wear our nation’s uniform.
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Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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I’ve been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.
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Everyone’s a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that’s something I’ve been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
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In my circle of friends, I’ve always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don’t want the spotlight on me.
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Once you’ve been through tough times, you can only become stronger.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don’t realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Well, I think that – I think leadership‘s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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I feel like my style’s always been influenced by ‘less is more.’ The coolest styles are kind of simple and classic, like a white T-shirt and jeans. Maybe you have a cool belt and cool shoes, but everything else you keep simple.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I’ve been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
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Human civilization has been changing the Earth’s environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
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Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
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Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
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Have you ever felt like a phone call that’s been disconnected?
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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I’ve been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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It’s not as if I’ve ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I’ve got is knowing people who have been in jail – after all, I was a member of Parliament – and visiting them there during their sentence.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn’t much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
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I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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The research I have been doing – studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells – does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it’s really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that’s been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.
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I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball‘s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
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I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.
