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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got."

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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker
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"Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think."

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
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"What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation."

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Roland Allen Missionary
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"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary"

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"If you’re afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you’re not really fit to advocate for them."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."

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Noah Cicero Author
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"I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me."

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