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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."

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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
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"I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I AM that's incongruent with God is really taking the Lord's name in vain!"

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear."

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