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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
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"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have."

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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
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"We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

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Lee Clow Advertising Executive
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"If it's been done, do it better. If it hasn't been done, do it so well that better is not an option."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
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"Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you"

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take.""

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