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Being Quotes (page 793)

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. Karlheinz Stockhausen
David Hume quote: "To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the..."
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. David Hume
As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. Kathryn Stockett
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. James Stockdale
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. David Hume
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. Max Stirner
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. David McCullough
If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. Brit Hume
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. David McCullough
We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced. Brit Hume
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. Michael Stipe
Colleen McCullough quote: "There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not..."
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be. Colleen McCullough
Michael Stipe quote: "I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That..."
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. Michael Stipe
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. Michael Porter
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. Katherine Anne Porter

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