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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns. (Quote by - Ken Burns)

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James. (Quote by - William James)

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. (Quote by - Joel Osteen)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. (Quote by - Plato)

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. (Quote by - John Lennon)

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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