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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Moments

"I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen."

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Boris Johnson Politician, Journalist
Moments

"My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg."

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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher
Moments

"I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Moments

"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Moments

"And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him."

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Joyce Brothers Psychologist
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"I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all."

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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
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"What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing."

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