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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."
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."
"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."
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