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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true"

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie."

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George Leonard Philosopher
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"There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?"

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper."

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Graham King Film Producer
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"I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak."

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