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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation."

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Priyanka Chopra Actress
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"Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
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"We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"[I] don't like to think like everybody else, don't like to try to think like everybody else, don't like to do nothing everybody else think I'm gone do, don't like to say nothing everybody else think I'm gone say. I'm a Martian. I like to be different. And what's more different than a Martian."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me."

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