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"I've been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they're always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they're doing."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way"

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way."

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Rex Reed Film Critic, Author
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"In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way."

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
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"You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe."

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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
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"You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation."

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Stephen King Author
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"he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way."

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