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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today."

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Charles Yu Author
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"What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?"

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached."

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Beth Grant Actress
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"I never heard Coen brothers get defensive, ever. You get with these filmmakers doing the hardest work in the world, and they're not defensive. They're happy together, they crack jokes together, they have different opinions - and it doesn't bother them that they have different opinions. So no wonder their work is so good, because you're getting two for the price of one."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?"

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with."

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Bonnie Jo Campbell Author, Musician
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"Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction."

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