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Anna Kendrick Actress, Singer
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"The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation."

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"Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament."

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"The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."

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