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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."

"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."

"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."