"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Being is more important than doing."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."

"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."

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