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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond."

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Alan Cohen Author
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"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

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Bill Ford Businessman
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"Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives ."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?"

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"

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Samuel Fuller Film Director
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"Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."

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