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Being Quotes (page 1115)

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me. John Lennon
Jane Austen quote: "Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward."
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Jane Austen
With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority. Milton Friedman
L. M. Montgomery quote: "If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet."
If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet. L. M. Montgomery
...[she]considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho
Jules Verne quote: "The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural..."
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. Jules Verne
Gen stopped and talked to Simon Thaibault, who was reading One Hundred Years Of Solutide in Spanish. 'This will take me forever,' Thaibault said to Gen in French, 'Maybe a hundred years. At least I know I have the time.' 'Who knew that being kidnapped was so much like attending university?' Gen said. Ann Patchett
George R. R. Martin quote: "Never forget who you are, for surely the world will not. Make..."
Never forget who you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. George R. R. Martin
He was nothing to me and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well. Charles Dickens
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future! Sylvia Plath
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is... Jeanette Winterson
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love? Yukio Mishima
… as I associated with more and more different types, I realized that to make it, you had to get along with almost everybody. If you dislike the people you work with, you’d better not show it. I learned that to be a good leader, I had to strike a delicate balance. Thomas Watson, Jr.
Jodi Picoult quote: "There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves..."
There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn. Jodi Picoult

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