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Jordan Belfort Stockbroker
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"You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way."

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Jules Henry Sociologist, Philosopher
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"Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning."

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts."

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Trip Lee Rapper, Author, Pastor
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"The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others."

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