Quotes with being

Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 1877.

  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Babe Paley The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Anne Hutchinson The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Will Rogers The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ayn Rand The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Northrop Frye The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Assata Shakur The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Seneca The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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