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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Truth
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Fishing
John Ruskin

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Education
John Ruskin

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Self-reliance
Patricia Sampson

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Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Decisions
Lord Samuel

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Words
George Santayana

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Humankind
Nathalie Sarraute

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Heroes and Heroism
May Sarton

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Meaning of Life
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
Wine
French Saying

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Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
Maturity
Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Sacrifice
Albert Schweitzer

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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Uncategorised
Albert Schweitzer

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Poverty and The Poor
Seneca

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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
Kindness
Seneca

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hatred
George Bernard Shaw

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Humankind
George Bernard Shaw

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Experts
George Bernard Shaw

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Heroes and Heroism
George Bernard Shaw

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Solomon Short

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The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
Morality
Rick Shuman

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Excellence
Charles Simmons

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