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Goes On

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George Jung
George Jung Drug Dealer, Author

"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool."

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
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"we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them"

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

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Brother Lawrence Monk, Cook
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"Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties."

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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
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"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt"

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"I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me."

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