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Rand Paul Politician
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"We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?"

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are."

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Ray Nelson Author
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"If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid."

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Sharon Stone Actress
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"A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently."

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Sid Caesar Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove."

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Sophie Jordan Author
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"Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself."

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