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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Poverty and The Poor
English Proverb

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
David Fasold

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
Happiness
Johann G. Fichte

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Life and Living
Joanna Field

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
Food and Eating
M. F. K. Fisher

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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Jane Fonda

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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Right and Rightness
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Presence is more than just being there.
Focus
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Gentlemen
Edward Fox

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A human being is a deciding being.
Choice
Viktor E. Frankl

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Life and Living
Viktor E. Frankl

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Ignorance
Benjamin Franklin

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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Poverty and The Poor
Benjamin Franklin

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Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke.
Prosperity
Billy Boy Franklin

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Honesty
Sigmund Freud

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Change
Robert Frost

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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Stardom
Robert Frost

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
Birth
Robert Frost

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Repentance
Thomas Fuller

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Age and Aging
Peter Gabriel

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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Compliments
Andre Gide

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Change
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Bosses and Employees
Alison Gomme

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