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Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
President
Harry S Truman

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Greatness
Harry S Truman

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Deception
Mark Twain

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A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Gentlemen
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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.
Impatience
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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.
Truth
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Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted.
Want
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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.
Happiness
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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Change
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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?
Humor
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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
Critics and Criticism
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Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Prejudice
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The customer is our reason for being here.
Customers
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The greatest need of every human being is the need for appreciation.
Appreciation
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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
Passion
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The well being of the people is the supreme law.
Leaders and Leadership
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Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.
Conflict
Yogabindu Upanishad

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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
Nudity
John Updike

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Perfection
John Updike

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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Death and Dying
Percival Arland Ussher

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Humor
Peter Ustinov

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Belief
Paul Valery

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Marriage
Queen Victoria

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Truth
Voltaire

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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Writers and Writing
Peter De Vries

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