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Laozi Philosopher
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"The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?"

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized."

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
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"The times that we are in, it's something that you can only feel in the air. You don't even have to talk about it. You don't need the news or the Internet to watch it. You can walk outside and just feel it."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life."

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