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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
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"The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies."

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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
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"I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life."

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