"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

Being, Perfection

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"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

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"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

Alex Grey, American Artist

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"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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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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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

Richard Ben Veniste, American Lawyer

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"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."

Morton Hunt, American Psychologist

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

Peter Munk, Hungarian Businessman

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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."

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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."

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"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."

Isolation

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."

Fear

"Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness."

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"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."

Memory

"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."

Mental Health

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

Civilization