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John Calvin
John Calvin Theologian, Reformer

"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."

Che Guevara
Che Guevara Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader

"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land."

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Al Gore Politician
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"The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word."

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Robert Johnson Musician
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"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love."

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Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed."

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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
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"And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."

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Anna Kendrick Actress, Singer
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"With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration."

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