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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more."

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Walker Percy Author, Novelist
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"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness."

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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist
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"How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live."

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