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Ali MacGraw Actress
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"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."

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Ali Vincent Reality TV Star, Author
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"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension"

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Andy Williams Singer
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"I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die."

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Ansel Adams Photographer
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"One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?"

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office."

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Assata Shakur Activist
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"I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good."

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