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Plato Philosopher
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"There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas."

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Edgerrin James Football Player
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"To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?"

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy."

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