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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Pessimism
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Power
Sydney Smith

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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
Performance
Sam Snead

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Misers and Misery
Gertrude Stein

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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Nature
Gil Stern

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Uncategorised
Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Duty
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Love
Igor Stravinsky

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Business
Edwin H. Stuart

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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Hell
Billy Sunday

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Success
Paul Sweeney

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Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
Riches
Stephen Swid

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Censure
Jonathan Swift

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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Happiness
Jonathan Swift

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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Confession
Publilius Syrus

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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Power
Margaret Thatcher

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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Men
Margaret Thatcher

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.
Life and Living
Robert Thibodeau

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Being is the great explainer.
Existence
Henry David Thoreau

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
Cities and City Life
Henry David Thoreau

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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
Men and Women
James Thurber

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Poverty and The Poor
Mike Todd

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Success
Lily Tomlin

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