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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them."

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Mara Wilson Actress
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"I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer."

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Katerina Graham Actress, Singer
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"My best audience and where I’m happiest is in the gay community. That’s where I feel the most accepted. It’s a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that’s where I’m home and I always want to come home."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs."

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Harry West Author
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"I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
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"The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it."

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James Arthur Singer-Songwriter
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"I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own."

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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
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"I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation."

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James Hunter Author
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"It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff."

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