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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
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"She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better."

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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
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"I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media."

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Gordon Gould Physicist
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"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different ."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"the Federal Reserve, has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... The European central bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?"

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it."

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Leona Lewis Singer-songwriter
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"A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent."

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