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350 quotesThe art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Slavery
Diogenes of Sinope
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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Marriage
Benjamin Disraeli
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Luck is being ready for the chance.
Luck
J. Frank Doble
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Purpose
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Existence
Coleman Dowell
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Pleasure
Margaret Drabble
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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Efficiency
Peter F. Drucker
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Communication
Peter F. Drucker
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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Love
Maureen Duffy
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Rebellion
Lawrence Durrell
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Age and Aging
Lawrence Durrell
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A transcendent being can be any miracle.
Miracles
Wayne Dyer
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Culture
Henry Van Dyke
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Life and Living
Bob Dylan
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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Reasonableness
Clint Eastwood
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Humankind
Albert Einstein
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Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
Dictators and Dictatorship
Milton S. Eisenhower
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Action
George Eliot
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
George Eliot
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
Influence
T. S. Eliot
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Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Writers and Writing
Lucy Ellman
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ugliness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Aid and Assistance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun