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Dana Gould Comedian
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"A lot of people are looking for their soul mates. Along the way, it's nice to bump into some genital pals."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead."

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Alice Gardner Historian, Author
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"This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm."

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Amy Williams Athlete
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"God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!"

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh."

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"I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak."

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