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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together."

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know."

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Marlene Dumas Artist
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"What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs..."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color."

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