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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
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"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost."

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