"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."

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"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

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"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."

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"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."

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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."

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

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"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."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."

"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."

"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

"There are no friends at cards or world politics."

"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."

"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."