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Samuel Johnson

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

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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."

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

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

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

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

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"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."

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"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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