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Being Quotes
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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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."
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"Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."
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"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
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"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."
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"I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance."
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"Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut."
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"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"I always took a great deal of pride in being original."
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"Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted."
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"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."
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"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."
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"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
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"Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!"
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"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."
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"A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition."
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"It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic."
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"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
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"To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired."
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"Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century."
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"The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die."
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"Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being."
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"Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation."
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"If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees."
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"Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise."
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"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way."
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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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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
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"Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet."
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"In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless."
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"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."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure."
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