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Vaclav Smil Scientist, Author
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"Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance."

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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
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"You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see your back." I just tell 'em, "I do not twirl. If you want to see my back, when I walk away, you can take a picture of it. I'm not twirling." You know, I twirled once, and I almost fell. It looks ridiculous. So I said I'm not twirling anymore."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end."

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"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse."

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Scott Adams Cartoonist
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"There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color."

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