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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Philosophy

"I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land."

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Russell Hoban Novelist, Children's Writer
Philosophy

"A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't."

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Saul Williams Poet, Actor, Musician
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"The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs."

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H. G. Wells Writer
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"There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world."

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Naomi Watts Actress
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"I've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it. You have to do whatever you can to shut it out, because you don't want your performance to be tainted. You don't want to fall into the trap of comparisons, basically."

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