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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!"

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master."

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