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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life."

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Gordon Smith Artist
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"A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download."

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Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist
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"Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist."

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"I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society."

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"If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him."

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Mark Vonnegut Physician, Author
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"With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves."

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