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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
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"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

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Jonathan Davis Musician
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"It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him."

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Meg Whitman Business Executive
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"Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back."

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
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"What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns."

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Moliere Playwright, Actor
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"I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody."

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Myron Allen Businessman
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"Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content."

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