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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
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"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things."

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Russell Lynes Photographer, Writer
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"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something."

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