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Helen Keller Author, Activist
Hopeful

“We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Philosophical

“There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Nostalgic

“It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.”

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Frank Thomas Artist
Spiritual

“You just can't wake up out of bed and think you can figure out a gym. You definitely need some personal training.”

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Franklin Raines Business Executive
Calm

“I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.”

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Nikki Reed Actress
Wise

“I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.”

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Nikki Reed Actress
Philosophical

“I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.”

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Nikki Reed Actress
Wise

“I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.”

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Marie Lu Author
Love

“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”

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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
Angry

“Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct line to what's been going on in your life and how you've been feeling and why you think the way you think. I do think there is a genetic predisposition for mental illness, for depression, for suicide, but I also think that lifestyle can change things. If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.”

Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
Inspired

“I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself.”

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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
Motivated

“People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.”

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Spiritual

“When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death”

Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Courageous

“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.”

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Philosophical

“I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.”