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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind."

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Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist
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"Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in."

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