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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works."

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"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection."

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be."

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