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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 a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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

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

"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."

"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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"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"


"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."


"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."


"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."
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