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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."

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Denis Johnson Author, Poet
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"All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us."

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Tracy K. Smith Poet, Professor
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"So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us."

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Gary Johnson Politician, Businessman
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"We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve."

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Mark Frost Screenwriter
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"If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish"

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Merlin Stone Author, Feminist
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"Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be"

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