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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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Personal Development
"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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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"My literary success meant nothing to me."
Success
"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
Life
"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
Death
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
Nature
"I'm not that interested in people."
People
"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
Governance
"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
Fool
"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer."
Being
"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
Being
"The feeble soul merely whines and complains."
Soul
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