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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?"

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through."

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Adam Young Musician
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"Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace."

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
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"Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern."

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