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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"

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Tom Hicks Businessman
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"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things."

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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work."

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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
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"Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see."

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