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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight"

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live."

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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
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"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."

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"By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us."

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Seamus Heaney Poet, Playwright
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"Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself."

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Rich Lowry Political Commentator
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"I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on."

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