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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity."

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Ray Allen Basketball Player
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"Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."

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Stephen King Author
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"If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design."

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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."

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George Washington Carver Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
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"I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow."

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Meriwether Lewis Explorer, Author
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"As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate."

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