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Al Gore Politician
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"I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."

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Alan King Comedian, Actor
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"I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task."

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"I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen."

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Russell Kirk Political Theorist, Author
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"The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests."

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Jimmy Buffett Musician, Author
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"He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there."

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"She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

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