"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

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"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

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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."

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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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"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war."

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"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."

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"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

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"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."

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"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."

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