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Mencius Philosopher
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"Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight."

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Andrea Jung Business Executive
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"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing."

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Mencius Philosopher
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"If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good."

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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
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"There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself."

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Dave Chappelle Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless."

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Abraham Maslow Psychologist
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"We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion."

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"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison."

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