"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

Being, Fact, Force, World

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"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."

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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."

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"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

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"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

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"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

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"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."

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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

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"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

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"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

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