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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
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"Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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""I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean."

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Maggie Smith Actress
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"The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?"

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