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Bryant Terry Chef, Author
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"In terms of the contemporary food system we see a lot of racism currently. Obviously we have a large supply of food. A lot of people don't examine why that is the case, but there are a number of nonwhite migrant workers being exploited every day."

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Ram Swarup Philosopher, Writer
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"But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me"

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Scott Walker Politician
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"I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term."

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Seamus Heaney Poet, Playwright
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"The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?"

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