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Seth Musician
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"If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen."

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Shelley Hamlin Actress
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"As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been."

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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
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"There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing."

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Sydney Smith Writer
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"His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit."

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H. G. Wells Writer
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"Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
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"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation"

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"She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil."

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