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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment"

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life."

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Murray Walker Motorsport Commentator
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"Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

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Calvin Harris Musician
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"I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back."

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Steven Wright Comedian
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"While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?""

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Florence King Author
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"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?"

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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them."

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