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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?"

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody."

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