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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

Avoided Being Believe Examine
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

Being Being Strong Forgive How
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Never say sorry for saying what you feel. That's like saying sorry for being real

Never Sorry Feel You
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Certainly Countries Developed Gotten
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If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Accordingly Happy Company Good
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The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Appreciated Aware Became Being
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

About Above Being Branded
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

Being Best Cover Publicity
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There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Being Southern Thing Too
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A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

Always Being Columnist Important
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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Adversaries Because Convinced Fighting
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Aggression Conquest Convinced Could
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Being Cool Doing Else
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

About Being Best Convinced
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I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
Judged Like Makes Me
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Bigot Christianity Church Direct
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Arriving Being Impossible Reason
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Being Deserves Each Even
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Being Certain Certain Way Character
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Adore Been Being Ever
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Able Being Dance Got
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I've loved just being a part of other people's success.

Being Just Loved Other
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Am Being Far God
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Bad Being Change Like
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Being Being Scared Find Myself
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

Able Beautiful Beautiful Places Being
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Being Beyond Consciousness Essence
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Being Enlightenment Freedom Joy
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Being Better Comfort Comfort Zone
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Always Being Certain Peace
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Because Being Both Choice
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Walk Winner Being Enough
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Age Any Being Believe
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I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

About Being Being Strong Complain
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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