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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it."

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Randall Kennedy Law Professor
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"What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type."

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"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself."

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Rebel Wilson Actress
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"As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society."

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