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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life."

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Mencius Philosopher
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"Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all."

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Eva Green Actress
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"When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!"

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches."

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Confucius Philosopher
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"If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?"

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."

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Andre Gide Novelist
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"Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital."

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