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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life."

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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
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"Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!"

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed."

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Maya Tiwari Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma."

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