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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."

"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."

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice."

"The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves."

"A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief."

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

"Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell."

"Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money."
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