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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle."

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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
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"One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; “I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments."

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Robert Kennedy Politician
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"Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed."

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Stephen King Author
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"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out."

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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
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"We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised."

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Steve Allen Television Personality
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"I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie."

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