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Alvin Adams Businessman
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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten."

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Sun Ra Musician
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"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr"

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