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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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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
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"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."
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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."
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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
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"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
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"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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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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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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