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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms."

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"As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."

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Esther Perel Psychotherapist, Author
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"In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays."

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