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“Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.”
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“It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.”
Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.”
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“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”
Source : Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.137, Univ of California Press
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“Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.”
Source : "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995. 
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“You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”
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“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”
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“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”
