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Elizabeth I Queen
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"[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians..."

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