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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"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."

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

"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."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."
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