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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured."

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Seth Musician
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"Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time."

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Seth Musician
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"The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this."

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Seth Musician
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"Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
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"Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction."

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