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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

Men, Parents, Free

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm

Cannot, Often, Deeply

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

Different, Quite, Risks

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn

Alone, Lovely, Surprise

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman, Human, Said

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope

Love, Hate, Woman

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

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.
Bill Gates

Put, Sense, Able

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

Good, Christmas, Kindness

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
Ron Paul

War, Strong, Nothing

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth, Happy, Two

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton

Sorry, After, Act

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Experience, Spiritual, Human

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Robert Kennedy

Again, Ruthless

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

Creativity, Afraid, Fail

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Between

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

God, Experience, Brain

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
Angelina Jolie

Used, Breath, Touched

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
Cat Cora

Pain, Different, Kids

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson

Fool, Guys, Fame

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
Jami Gertz

Humor, Mom, Crazy

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

Silence, After, Write

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant

Life, Alone, Lonely

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

Poetry, True, Sense

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk

Alone, Together, Used

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank

Matter, Prevent

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Paula Deen

Money, Important, Fashion

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Emotions, Emotion, Side

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children, Soul, Healed

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