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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."

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