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Alan Watts

(1915 - 1973)

Philosopher

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.
Allowance - Effort - Inspiration - Oneself - People
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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.
Atheism - Christianity - End - Italy - People - Punishment - Reality - Religion - Support - Witchcraft
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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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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
Ignorance - Oneself
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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Encouragement - Family - Friendship - Happiness - Insight - Inspiration - Love - Motivation - Reality
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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
Oneself - Spiritual - Transformation - World
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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Accept - Comfort - Man - Oneself
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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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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Inspiration - Man - Rich
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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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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Inspiration - Key - Oneself
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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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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong
Inspiration - Motivation
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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Frustration - Good - Inspiration - Knowledge - Mother - Saints - Spiritual
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Oneself
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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.
Accept - Effort - Inspiration - Life - People - Remembering
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
Giving - Good - Inspiration - Philosophy
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