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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Being
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
Fire
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
Language
"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day."
Woman
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
Friendship
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money."
Money
"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Values
"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."
Being
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
Autobiography
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
Art
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