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Being Quotes
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
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"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."
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"Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product."
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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal."
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"When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
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"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."
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"I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it."
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"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
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"There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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