"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

Jacques Barzun, American Educator

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Being, Boasts, Self

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

Nicole Appleton, Canadian Musician

Being, Joy

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Being, Holiday, May, Rejection

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

John Sexton, American Educator

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

Will Friedle, American Actor

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."

"Nothing exists except through language."

"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."

"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."

"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."