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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality."

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
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"The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth."

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"Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor"

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may."

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