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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency."

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Vaclav Klaus Politician, Economist
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"EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation."

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R. J. Reynolds Businessman
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"We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
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"It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)"

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial."

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