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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
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"When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear."

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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."

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"Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry."

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Bonnie Wright Actress
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"I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us."

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Virgil Goode Politician
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"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself."

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Rowan Williams Theologian
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"We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
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"What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic."

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