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Homer Hickam Author, Engineer
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"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?"

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."

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Les Brown Motivational Speaker, Author
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"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it."

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Baltasar Gracian Philosopher, Writer
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"Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves."

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Ed Parker Martial Artist, Author
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"There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."

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