"If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful."
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"The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning."
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""Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life."
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"My life has been nothing but a failure."
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"Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom"
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"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods."
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"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."
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"I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom."
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"No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written."
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"We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
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"Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be."
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"God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads."
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"I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished."
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"Progress has been much more general than retrogression"
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"Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion."
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"I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are."
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"One can only remember what has been consciously experienced."
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"The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger."
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"I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising."
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"Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated."
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