Being Quotes
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All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth
William Mathews
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
William Heath Robinson
Subject: Mental Health QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
William Hazlitt
Keywords: able :: all :: and :: appearance :: as :: being :: but :: confidence :: contribute :: delight :: devotion :: extreme :: favor :: gallantry :: in :: is :: it :: nothing :: of :: road :: satisfaction :: sure :: the :: their :: to :: toward :: wants :: wishes :: women :: yourselfSubject: Chivalry Quotes :: Confidence QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson
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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Keywords: alone :: american :: an :: asunder :: being :: body :: dark :: dogged :: ever :: feels :: from :: his :: ideals :: in :: it :: keeps :: negro :: one :: souls :: strength :: strivings :: thoughts :: torn :: two :: twoness :: unreconciled :: warring :: whoseSubject: African American QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
Keywords: appearance :: being :: gives :: habit :: it :: long :: not :: of :: right :: superficial :: thing :: thinking :: wrongSubject: Appearance QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
Keywords: and :: avoid :: because :: begin :: being :: fear :: hurt :: in :: insignificant :: is :: it :: late :: many :: more :: never :: of :: people :: proportion :: smaller :: suffer :: suffering :: that :: the :: things :: to :: too :: torture :: truth :: try :: understand :: until :: you :: yourSubject: Suffering QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong ele...
Starhawk
Keywords: ascetism :: back :: become :: being :: brought :: christianity :: church :: degrenerated :: early :: element :: flesh :: had :: hatred :: in :: into :: its :: misogyny :: of :: on :: quarters :: some :: strong :: that :: the :: those :: turned :: which :: who :: women :: worldSource: thinkexist.com
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Adam Katz
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Keywords: being :: boy :: educate :: encouraged :: himself :: in :: instead :: instructed :: is :: of :: scouting :: toSubject: Scouting QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Be happy. It`s one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle
Subject: Happiness Quotes :: Wisdom QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of cra...
Senator John Kerry
Keywords: accused :: ass :: being :: brainwashed :: callous :: candidate :: crap :: defended :: degrading :: had :: hearings :: him :: idiot :: in :: is :: john :: manchurian :: mccain :: most :: nonsensical :: of :: piece :: right :: some :: somehow :: stupid :: that :: the :: this :: those :: unbelievably :: ve :: vietnamese :: when :: wingSubject: John McCain Quotes :: Vietnam QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If anything prepares you to be president, it`s being a Red Sox fan.
Senator John Kerry
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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Russell Baker
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased
Robert Green Ingersoll
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A university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Richard Hofstadter
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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker
Keywords: about :: attributes :: being :: by :: defined :: effective :: is :: leadership :: liked :: making :: not :: or :: results :: speechesSubject: Authority Quotes :: Leadership Quotes :: Management Quotes :: Solution Quotes :: Speech QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being
Paul Tillich
Subject: Neurosis QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being
Paul Tillich
Subject: Neurosis QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
