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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author

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"God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist

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"[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write."

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Franz Kafka Writer

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"There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it."

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James Joseph Sylvester Mathematician

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"It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

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"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."

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Paul Johnson Journalist, Author

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"Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down."

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Epictetus Philosopher

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"If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher."

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

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"A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people."

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Cornel West Philosopher

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"It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker

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"Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?"

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist

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"Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

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"Flow down and down in always widening rings of being."

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Lamar Odom Basketball Player

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"In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York."

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Lauren Oliver Author

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"And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer

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"I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure."

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Lucinda Williams Singer-songwriter

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"I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life."

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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker

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"An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

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"The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation."

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"

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