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"A human being is a deciding being."
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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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"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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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"A human being is a deciding being."
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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
Life

"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
People

"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
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"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."
Life

"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
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"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
Life

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
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