Peter Gabriel
Musician
"It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive."
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Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself"
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby."
William O'Neil
Investor
"Forget the adage buy low and sell high."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love."
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"Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through."
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"It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far."
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"Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him."
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"Follow the rules or follow the fools."
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"There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words."
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"You'll never be greater than yourself."
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"Ordinary people have extraordinary love."
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"Age doesn't make a man."
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"Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all."
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"If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again."
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"With few words, one can speak the truth."
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"If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly."
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"Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death."
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"All things must pass, all things must pass away."
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"Never met a wise man, if so its a woman."
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"The heart says what only the heart knows."
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"When you have everything, you have everything to lose."
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"Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it."
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"When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening."
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"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."
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