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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about."

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