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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired."

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Rand Paul Politician
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"If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot."

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