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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life"

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt."

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Ben Cohen Entrepreneur
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"The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer's needs. If you've got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular."

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Adrian Peterson Professional Athlete
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"I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day."

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Derek Freeman Anthropologist
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"What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen."

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Dick Pound Sports Administrator
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"Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?"

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in"

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call."

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