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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
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"To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard."

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"Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen"

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