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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love"

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Robert Jordan Author
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"The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation."

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Stephen King Author
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"She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is."

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
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"The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."

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