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  • Robert Collier Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Lionel Trilling Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Junot Diaz Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Brooke Shields Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
    BBC The myths of sex before sport, 12 August, 2004
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joe Paterno Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Carl Hubbell Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Mark Twain Better a broken promise than none at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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