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Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Apathy
Aldous Huxley

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Morality
Aldous Huxley

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Sentiment
Thomas H. Huxley

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Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
Travel and Tourism
Chrissie Hynde

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Happiness
Thomas Jefferson

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Responsibility
Gerald W. Johnson

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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Public Opinion
Samuel Johnson

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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Neglect
Samuel Johnson

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson

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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Prejudice
Samuel Johnson

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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson

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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
Neighbors
Franklin P. Jones

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Punctuality
Franklin P. Jones

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Churches
James Joyce

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Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
President
Edward Kennedy

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Dreams
Jack Kerouac

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Money
John Maynard Keynes

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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Ideals and Idealism
Pir Vilayat Khan

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Self-expression
Soren Kierkegaard

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Idleness
Soren Kierkegaard

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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Autobiography
Henry Kissinger

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Bores and Boredom
Henry Kissinger

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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Contentment
Louis L'Amour

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