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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!"

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
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"Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't"."

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist
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"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while."

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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?"

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour."

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