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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."

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Charlie Chaplin Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
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"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?"

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion."

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