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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side."

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it."

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Rich Hall Comedian, Writer
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"Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side."

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Laura Huxley Author
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"Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle."

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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
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"If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism."

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Pascal Bruckner Philosopher, Writer
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"You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore."

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