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Being Quotes
"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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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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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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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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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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"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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"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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"There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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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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"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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"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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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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"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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"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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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem 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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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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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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"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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"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 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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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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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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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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