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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
People

"The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
People

"For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
People

"Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people."

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Kirk Franklin Musician, Producer
People

"Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
People

"If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!"

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
People

"Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
People

"This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life."

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Euripides Playwright
People

"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
People

"When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound."

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David Lee Roth Musician
People

"Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
People

"We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
People

"A lot of people sayin’ f*** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me."

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