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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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Fran Tarkenton Former Professional Football Player, Broadcaster
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"You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?"

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Andre Weil Mathematician
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"When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles."

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