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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those mil­lions how they can shine out, instead of accept­ing the dark­ness of Com­mu­nism."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter."

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Vanilla Ice Rapper
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"I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff."

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Rainn Wilson Actor
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"If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls."

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