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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
Soul

"Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^"

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts."

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality."

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible."

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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things."

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