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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat."

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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all."

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Plato Philosopher
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"For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards."

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb."

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