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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone."

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Theresa May Politician
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"Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so."

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