"So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection."
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"What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame."
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"Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others."
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"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."
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"Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will."
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"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
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"Never ask a man where he has been."
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"Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao."
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"There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future."
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"Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head"
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"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."
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"My only politics have been friendship."
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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."
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"The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest."
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"The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then."
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"Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved"
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"I could have been a great many things."
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"When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid."
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"I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous."
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"I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men."
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