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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Written by Henry Kissinger
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Written by Dan Quayle
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Written by Winston Churchill
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Written by John Cleese
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Written by Lily Tomlin
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Written by Jerry Lewis
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Written by George Orwell
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Written by Andre Maurois
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Written by Erich Fromm
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Written by Frank Herbert
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Written by Blaise Pascal
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Written by John Lennon
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Written by Richard Bach
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Written by Charles Dudley Warner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Written by Lao Tzu
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Written by Bertrand Russell
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Written by Plato
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Written by Plato
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Written by Khalil Gibran
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Written by Anatole France
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Written by Elbert Hubbard
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Written by Robert Anthony
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Written by Arnold J. Toynbee
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Written by Octavio Paz
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Written by Khalil Gibran
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Written by A. C. Benson
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Written by Willem de Kooning

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