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• Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

  Harold Urey

  Regret, Science, Should Have

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Favors

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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• I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

  Bo Belinsky

  Regret, Watches, Watch Me

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• The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Regret, Artist, People

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.12, Modern Library

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

  Scott Baio

  Regret, Faults, Losing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Regret, Thinking, Well Known

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• I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Regret, Thinking

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• I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mothers Day, Children, Regret

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• So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

  Kathy Griffin

  Regret, Helping

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• I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

  Johnny Cash

  Regret, Way, Honest

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• Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Regret, Yeah

  “The Greatest Party Animals Of All Time” by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving Up, Regret, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.847, Simon and Schuster

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• I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Regret, Hands, Soul

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• I regret my disbelief in God.

  Peter Medawar

  Regret, Atheism, Disbelief

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been pure, raw energy, and now you control it. Youʹre the most amazing woman Iʹve ever met, and Iʹm glad to have had that love for you in my life. I regret losing it.ʺ He grew pensive. ʺI would give anything—anything—in the world to go back and change history. To run into your arms after Lissa brought me back. To have a life with you. Itʹs too late, of course, but Iʹve accepted it.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Running, Regret

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• Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

  Samuel Beckett

  Girl, Regret, Grief

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fun, Regret, Book

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• As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Regret, Regret Nothing, Concerned

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• I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Husband, Attitude, Regret

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• I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Regret, Tears, Want

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Regret, Historical, Film

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• I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Death, Regret, World

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• There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

  Joan Larkin

  Regret, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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