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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things."

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"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

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