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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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Personal Development
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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Personal Development
"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 can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
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Personal Development
"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."
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"I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day."
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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
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"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."
People
"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."
Power
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."
Power
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
Trust
"Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."
Spiritual
"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."
Quality
"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."
People
"If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident."
Society
"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage."
Courage
"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
Sociology
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