"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."

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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."

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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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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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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"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."

Adolph Green, American Playwright

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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."

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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."

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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."

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"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."

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