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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing."

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Ted Allen Chef
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"It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef."

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"It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."

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Vikram Seth Poet, Novelist
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"I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them."

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