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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
- Nov 07, 2020