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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression"

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful."

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as... being a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services."

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