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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?"

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use."

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"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange."

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest."

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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively."

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