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Abraham Maslow Psychologist
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"We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion."

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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?"

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Clarice Lispector Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea."

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
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"For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought."

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Henry James Author
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"You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us."

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