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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes."

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Gene Wolfe Author
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"Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it."

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."

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Friedrich Engels Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life."

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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
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"A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments."

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Jordan Belfort Stockbroker
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"Some people say that it's so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There's so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that's just getting into business."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact"

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"I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!"

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry."

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