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" Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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" When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera. "

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" It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will. "

" You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. "

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" Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. "

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" Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. "

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" Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. "

" Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire. "

" Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington. "

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" Free time keeps me going. "

" I love doing just nothing in my free time. "

" We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. "

" For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. "

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" The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. "

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" Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. "

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" The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking. "

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" It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same. "

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" There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. "

" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "