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

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

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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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"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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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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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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant."

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"Loving is half of believing."

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". . .where there is no more hope, song remains."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

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"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."

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"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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"People do not read stupidities with impunity."

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"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"

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"Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie."

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