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"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
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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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Personal Development
"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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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
Work
"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
Woman
"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
Woman
"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
Character
"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
Experience
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
Heart
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
First
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
Power
"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
People
"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."
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