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Gone

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician

"Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?"

Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison Musician, Poet

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever."

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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet
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"Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter."

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone."

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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
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"Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on."

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