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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
Reason

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Life

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Being

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Funny

"To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong."
Politics

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War

"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
Thought
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