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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development
"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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Personal Development
"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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Personal Development
"One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population."
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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Creativity
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
Humor
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
Virtue
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
Being
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
Heart
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
Psychology
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
Writing
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
Society
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
Imagination
"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."
Power
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