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"In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order."

"In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order."

Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist

Being, Energy, Fact, Order

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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

Franklin P. Jones, American Journalist

Being, Nothing, Party

30

"He who stops being better stops being good."

"He who stops being better stops being good."

Oliver Cromwell, English Soldier

30

"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

Peter Munk, Hungarian Businessman

30

"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."

"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."

Irwin Shaw, American Novelist

Being, Honor, Sense, Writer

30

"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."

"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."

Reba McEntire, American Musician

Being, Growing up

30

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

Being, Chance, Saying

30

"The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled."

"The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled."

Mike Marsh, American Athlete

30

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."

Paul Valery, French Poet

30

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

30

"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."

"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."

Esther Williams, American Actress

30

"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."

"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."

Portia de Rossi, Australian Actress

Being, Gay, Name, Struggle

30

"I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable."

"I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable."

Josh Lucas, American Actor

30

"The fact is that I loved being in England."

"The fact is that I loved being in England."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

Being, EnglFact

30

"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."

"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."

Eric San, Canadian Musician

30

"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."

"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."

Tony Hillerman, American Author

Being, Blood, Culture

30

"When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself."

"When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself."

Michael Zaslow, American Actor

Being, Feeling, Lonely, Romantic

30

"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."

"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."

Tracy Kidder, American Author

Being, Living, Writer

30

"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."

"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."

Larry McMurtry, American Writer

Being, Deep, Projects, Sense

30

"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."

"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

30

"It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer."

"It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer."

Lesley-Anne Down, British Actress

Being, Cancer, Old, Years

30

"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."

"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer

Being, Building, Communism, Reason

30

"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China."

"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

30

"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."

"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."

John Donne, British Poet

Being, Parliament, Quiet, States

30

"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing."

"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing."

Jam Master Jay, American Musician

30

"I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago."

"I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago."

Jim Sullivan, English Musician

Being, Flowers, Years

30

"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"

"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"

Bruce Dickinson, English Musician

Being, Famous, Interest

30

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

30

"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."

"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."

Rick Boucher, American Politician

Being, Communication, First, Internet

30

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

Being, Reason, Want

30

"I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it."

"I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

Being, Key, Talk, Want

30

"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."

"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."

Iris Murdoch, Irish Author

30

"It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range."

"It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range."

John Elway, American Athlete

30

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

30

"Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet."

"Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet."

Morris Chestnut, American Actor

30

"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."

"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."

Barbra Streisand, American Actress

Being, Feet, Glamour, Hurt

30

"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."

"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."

Robert Anton Wilson, American Writer

30

"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."

"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."

Tony Hillerman, American Author

Being, College, English, Project

30

"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."

"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

30

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German Critic

Being, Drinking

30

"I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity."

"I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity."

Robert Winston, British Scientist

Being, Publicity

30

"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."

"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Being, Emotion, Emotions

30

"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."

"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."

Frank Luntz, American Politician

Being, Emotion, Fact, Passion

30

"I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy."

"I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy."

Dan Marino, American Athlete

30

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

30

"Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast."

"Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast."

Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor

30

"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."

"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Being, Existence, Philosophy, Reality

30

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish Actress

30

"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit."

"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit."

Mercer Reynolds, American Businessman

Being, Day, First, Job

30

"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc."

"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc."

John Hench, American Artist

Being, Birds, Magic, Now

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