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Emily Browning Actress
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"I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."

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