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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist
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"I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?"

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions."

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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
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"Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence."

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Ariel Gore Author
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"My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can."

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