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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
Leaders and Leadership
Andre Maurois

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
Love
George Mcdonald

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Being seventy is not a sin.
Age and Aging
Golda Meir

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The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
Self-improvement
Dennis the Menace

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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Decay
Henry Miller

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Organization
A. A. Milne

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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
Fame
Marilyn Monroe

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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Self-pity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
Personality
Henry Morgan

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Mother Teresa

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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Disease
Mother Teresa

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Television
Malcolm Muggeridge

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Happiness
Hector Hugh Munro

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Goodness
Iris Murdoch

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Worship
Iris Murdoch

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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Risk
Jawaharlal Nehru

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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Association
Robert Neville

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Goals
Charles C. Noble

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
George Orwell

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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Averages
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Misers and Misery
Blaise Pascal

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
Risk
George S. Patton

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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Price
Cesare Pavese

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
Work
Anna Pavlova

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Mistakes
Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun