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Julius Caesar Military General, Statesman
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"No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance."

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Kit Williams Author and Illustrator
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"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

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Kris Allen Singer
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"I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food."

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Aesop Rock Rapper
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"I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily."

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see."

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