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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
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"You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject."

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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
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"One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans."

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Confucius Philosopher
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"The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'"

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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet
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"The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real."

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Anita Hill Law Professor and Activist
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"Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before"

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