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Barack Obama Politician
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"I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success."

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Patrick Swift Artist
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"Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder."

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Diana Ross Singer
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"I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up."

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