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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

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Carlo RovelliLa realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the...

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other ...

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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...

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Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Br...

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I don't mind not being cool.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a pe...

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Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at th...

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Czesław MiłoszA Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...

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I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representat...

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If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they...

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Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning i...

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Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground ...

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

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Fulton J. SheenPhilosophy of Science

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that ...

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Fulton J. SheenPhilosophy of Science

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what l...

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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...

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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

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As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into co...

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I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal...

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, c...

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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t...

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

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Iris MurdochThe Time of the Angels

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spirit...

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You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

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Leadership does not depend on being right.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-bei...

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O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtfu...

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I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

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John C. LillyThe Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It i...

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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

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John Stuart MillAn examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there ar...

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He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...

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My health and my family are the core of my being.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

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José Ortega y GassetLa Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his ...

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I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stoneMan is not to rule o...

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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation...

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LaoziHua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our har...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronolog...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the ot...

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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.