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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street."

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Cornel West Philosopher
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"The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave"

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Betty Smith Author
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"She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it"

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Bryan Davis Musician
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"No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton"

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public."

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Anne Campbell Activist
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"Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured."

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