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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable."

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Mary Martin Singer
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"Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it"

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me"

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!"

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice."

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"English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled."

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