"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."

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"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

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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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"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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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

John Irving, American Novelist

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

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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."

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

"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."

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

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."

"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."

"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."

"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

"Science is the systematic classification of experience."

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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."