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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things."

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Lyn St. James Racing Driver
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"The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible."

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