"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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

George Orwell, British Author

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."

Freedom

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

Fear

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."

Purpose

"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."

Courage

"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."

Identity

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

Behavior

"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."

Perception

"Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes."

Emotion

"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."

Future

"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."

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