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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat."

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Martin Gardner Mathematician
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"The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician."

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Stewart Brand Environmentalist, Author
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"Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage."

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Lydia Davis Author
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"You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t."

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
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"I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be."

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