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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up."

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Richard Bach Author
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"I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world."

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Stefan Zweig Writer
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"All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world."

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Stewart Brand Environmentalist, Author
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"The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment."

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Kami Garcia Author
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"I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it."

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"Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally."

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