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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Frightening - Writing

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Gratefulness - Pain - Quality - Suffering - Thinking - World

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

Kindness - Wellness - Wit

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

Feelings - People - Sometimes - Thinking - Trial

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Activity - Choice - Citizenry - Democracy - Economy - Effort - Machine - Majority - Oppression - Resistance - State - Thinking - Violence

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Think and grow rich.

Growing - Rich - Thinking

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet, Critic, Philosopher, Theologian

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

Excellence - Wellness

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Feelings - Wellness

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Anais Nin

Writer

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

Earth - Essence - Feelings - Secrets - Silence - Trap - Wellness

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Feelings - Home - Wellness

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Dr. Seuss

Author, Cartoonist, Animator

I am not a consecutive writer.

Writing

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Louise Hay

Author

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

Accept - Consciousness - Hate - Jobs - Negative - Thinking - Wants

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

Earth - Living - Making - Thinking

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

Almighty - Belief - Heavens - Lie - Permission - Teaching - Writing

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Danger - Essence - Meaning - Wellness

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Emily Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Proof - Remembering - Wellness

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Ego - Envy - Feelings - Illusion - Madness - Strength - Taking - Thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Inspiration - Strength - Wellness

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