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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!"

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Bryan Adams Singer-Songwriter
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"People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

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Ali Sina Philosopher, Writer
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"If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation."

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
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"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."

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