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Marlon Brando Actor, Director
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"Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them."

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another."

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