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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving."

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Gordon Smith Artist
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"Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."

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Daniel Gilbert Businessman
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"My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it."

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that."

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Dawud Wharnsby Ali Singer, Songwriter
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"There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until they learn they can play fair."

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