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Being Quotes
"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
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"I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks."
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"There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad."
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"The child benefits more from being valued than evaluated."
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"When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good."
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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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"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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"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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"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
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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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"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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"Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets."
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"I always took a great deal of pride in being original."
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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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"To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired."
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"In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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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 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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"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."
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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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"You guys are the best. I'll see you in a couple of hours. I haven't seen another human being in 13 hours and I'm running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!"
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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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"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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"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
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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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"I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself."
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