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Jonathan Davis Musician
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"I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State."

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Dodie Smith Author
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"He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me."

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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts."

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Teresa Palmer Actress
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"I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit."

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