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Barack Obama Politician
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"We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools."

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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students."

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Paul Ryan Politician
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"The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic.""

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Peter Gabriel Musician
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"They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out."

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Calvin Pryor Football Player
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"I used a lot of what we call the "Shred-mill." It's like a treadmill, but you're basically running up hill and it's getting faster as you go. It definitely helped at the combine because it teaches you drive phases, how to pump your arms and how to use different aspects of your body."

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Eli Roth Filmmaker
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"The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap."

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