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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?"

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
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"The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize."

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Jeff Buckley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy."

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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
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"Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."

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Baltasar Gracian Philosopher, Writer
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"It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters."

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