"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."

-- Robert Foster Bennett

#Mean Quotes #Past Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Never meet trouble half-way.”
“Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.”
“Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.”
“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.”

Source : Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.
“Most younger gay guys that I know never had to formally come out. They came out of the womb and they were little faggots and they grew up and everyone acknowledged they were little faggots and they went on, and that's it. I think coming out as a whole is old hat.”
“The contents of the glass donâ€™t matter; whatâ€™s more important is to realize thereâ€™s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.”
“State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development”

Source : John Warren Kindt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (1996). “U.S. National security and the strategic economic base: the business-economic impacts of the legalization of gambling activities”
“Mother always said you were greedy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Randolph Duke". "Trading Places", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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