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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."

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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
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"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

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Wilder Penfield Neurosurgeon
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"I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind."

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Abraham Maslow Psychologist
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"Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?"

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life."

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
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""Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment."

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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you."

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