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Ben Schwartz Actor
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"The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation."

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Colin Hay Musician
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"I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti."

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Steve Allen Television Personality
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"This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever."

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Kami Garcia Author
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"Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back."

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Hank Green Entrepreneur, Author, YouTuber
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"So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death"

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television."

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little."

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