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"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."

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Henry Ford Industrialist
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"The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours."

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John Lloyd Young Actor, Singer
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"It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show."

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Joyce Banda Politician
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"I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?"

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal."

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