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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention."

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Joe Kraus Entrepreneur
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"We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."

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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
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"While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now."

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Paul Rand Graphic Designer
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"Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see."

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William Wells Brown Writer, Abolitionist
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"The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish."

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