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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul."

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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
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"Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense."

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