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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect"

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Saint Peter Religious Leader
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"Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
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"But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education."

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Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve"

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence."

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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop
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"God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?"

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state"

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus."

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