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John F. Kennedy Politician
Inspiration

"In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."

Inspiration Loss Courage
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
Inspiration

"In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers."

Inspiration Numbers Iron
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Inspiration

"In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline."

Inspiration Freedom 4th Of July
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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Inspiration

"[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject."

Past Inspiration Communication
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Hoodie Allen Rapper
Inspiration

"I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop."

Writing Song Inspiration
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Inspiration

"We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?"

Believe Mistake Inspiration
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Inspiration

"Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered."

Feelings Inspiration Kindness
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Inspiration

"The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began."

Christian Inspiration Pride
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Barack Obama Politician
Inspiration

"What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration."

Inspiration Next Generations
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