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Ava Gardner Actress
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"After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”"

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."

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