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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has."

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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question"

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you."

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