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Andrew Peterson Musician
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"But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found"

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off."

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"So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."

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