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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action."

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Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Philosopher
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"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident."

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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities."

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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation."

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"I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act."

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Dionne Brand Poet, Novelist
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"Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are in, which is a reflection of the role of women in my traditional culture - that they do not interfere in politics until men really make such a mess that the society is unable to go backward or forward. Then women will move in."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still."

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Bob Harper Fitness Trainer
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"There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more."

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