#being

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. ↗

— Richard Bach

#being #come #given #however #make

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#being #best #coach #created #existed

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

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