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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time."

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James Arthur Singer-Songwriter
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"In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary."

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Marie Lu Author
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"I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out."

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Henry John Stephen Smith Mathematician
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"For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature."

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