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"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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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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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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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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"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
Society
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
Travel
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
Being
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
Creativity
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
Empathy
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
World
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
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