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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"This is the body you've been given - love what you've got."

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Laura Huxley Author
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"Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
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"The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!"

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