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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out."

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."

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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward."

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Lewis Hamilton Formula One Driver
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"I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now."

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Kevin James Actor/Comedian
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"I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship."

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet
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"Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation."

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape."

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Herbie Mann Jazz Musician
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
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"Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep."

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