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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors."

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Jimmy Rollins Baseball Player
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"If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner."

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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck."

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Kim Wilde Singer, Songwriter
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"Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway."

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Homer Poet
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"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing."

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