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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth."

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Tracy Austin Tennis Player
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"In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me."

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Tom Cole Artist
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""Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup."

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Rich Lowry Political Commentator
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"The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
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"I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death."

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
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"I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand."

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years."

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