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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet"."

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Bono Musician, Activist
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"Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself."

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