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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love."

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"I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."

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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist
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"I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis."

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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!"

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!"

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass"

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us."

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Lee De Forest Inventor
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"I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously..."

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"And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass."

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