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Being Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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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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"The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is."
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"The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things."
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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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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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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."
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"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."
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"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
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"I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern."
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"I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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