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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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John Lennon Musician, Activist
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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason."

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John Oliver Comedian
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"There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow."

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John Taylor Musician
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"Again, there are other things associated with these matters, all bearing more or less upon the same points. When God selected Joseph Smith to open up the last dispensation, which is called the dispensation of the fullness of times, the Father and the Son appeared to him, arrayed in glory, and the Father, addressing himself to Joseph, at the same time pointing to the Son, said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."

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Jonathon Keats Artist, Philosopher
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"It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is."

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Joyce Giraud Model, Actress
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"I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in."

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Julie James Author
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"It’s not the place that matters, It’s how good you are when you get there.” -Rylann"

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Joseph Brodsky Poet, Essayist
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"I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move."

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