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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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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."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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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."
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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."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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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."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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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."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
Being
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
Poet
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Dream
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
Present
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Progress
"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
Destiny
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
Work
"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
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"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out."
Love
"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."
Failure
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