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Wendell Mayes

"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."

Wendell Mayes, American Screenwriter
Being, Navy, Right, Wrong
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Donna Grant

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist
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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer
Being, Benefits, Duty, World
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher
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Donna Grant

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet
Being, Nothing, Respect
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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Donna Grant

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

Frank Herbert, American Writer
Being, Difference, Road, Sentiment
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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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