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Esther Perel Psychotherapist, Author
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"It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become."

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Esther Perel Psychotherapist, Author
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"Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?"

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Donald Miller Author
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"If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

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Amy Grant Singer, Songwriter
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"Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you."

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Andy Murray Tennis Player
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"I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector."

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