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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?"

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate."

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Richard Bach Author
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"Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period."

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Robert Downey, Jr. Actor, Producer
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"I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again."

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Sue Augustine Artist, Writer
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"Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."

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