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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once."

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John Bachman Naturalist, Botanist
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"I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed."

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Prince Andrew Royal Family Member
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"People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain."

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