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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."

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

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

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

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself."

"Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler."

"You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life."

"I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'"
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