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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it."

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Boethius Philosopher, Theologian
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"Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him."

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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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"We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'"

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Frank Sinatra Singer, Actor
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"I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them."

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