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Sofia Coppola Filmmaker
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"I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
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"Making money has always been pretty easy for me, but today I don't need any more money. I still work, because money is important, but my work is more important than the money, now. And that's a very big difference. I just work because I enjoy my work."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance."

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Swami Yogananda Spiritual Teacher
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"The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."

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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
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"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."

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"Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing."

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

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