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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch)."

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Walter Smith Artist
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"Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me."

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Warryn Campbell Music Producer
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"You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music."

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