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"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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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."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
Being
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
Battle
"Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils."
Man
"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
Battle
"Habit is ten times nature."
Nature
"The only thing I am afraid of is fear."
Fear
"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
Business
"I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example."
Friendship
"When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out."
Time
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
Battle
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