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- 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) [enemies/being]
- One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question. (William Morris) [danger/being/men/men]
- His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. (William Morris) [housing/being]
- If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. (William Morris) [degradation/being/animals/men]
- He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. (Samuel Johnson) [pain/being]
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. (Benjamin Franklin) [being/shame/being]
- The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. (Vladimir Nabokov) [feeling/words/being]
- Freedom lies in being bold. (Robert Frost) [being]
- The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite. (William Blake) [desire/being]
- If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
- If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
- A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. (Barbra Streisand) [human/being/trust]
- Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. (Marilyn Monroe) [being/more/being]
- There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. (Marlene Dietrich) [money/being]
- There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. (Marlene Dietrich) [money/being]
- To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. (Jane Fonda) [human/being/care/people]
- The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. (John Updike) [life/being/control/mercy]
- You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) [being/power]
- Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. (Laurence Olivier) [magic/matter/being]
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. (William James) [more/human/being]
- Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. (Maria Callas) [women/men/being/women]
- We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend. (William Wordsworth) [love/being]
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. (Joseph Addison) [being/music]
- There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. (Joseph Addison) [more/being]
- Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. (Maya Angelou) [education/being/strange]
- There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. (Maya Angelou) [life/being]
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. (Hannah Arendt) [speech/speech/being]
- It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius. (Antonin Artaud) [time/being/science/genius]
- You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) [being/power]
- An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. (Richard Bach) [being/power/reality]
- I have a fear of being boring. (Christian Bale) [fear/being]
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