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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind"

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys."

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"People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water."

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Henri Bergson Philosopher
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"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted."

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places."

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Joe Wright Film Director
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"I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential."

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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations"

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world."

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Hoodie Allen Rapper
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"I never want a fan to come and hear what they hear on their iPod, its about creating a unqiue and awesome experience."

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Lydia Davis Author
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"The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now."

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