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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation."

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Diem Brown Television Personality
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"Everything bad that's ever happened in my life I've seen an outcome that's positive later on."

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Thomas E. Mann Political Scientist
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"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Ray Lewis Football Player
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"I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome."

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