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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

"10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless."

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Clancy Martin Philosopher
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"Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago."

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Frank Oz Puppeteer, Actor, Director
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"I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is."

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