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Jules Henry Sociologist, Philosopher
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"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread"

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John Carroll Actor
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"Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'."

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Jim Shaw Artist, Painter
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"I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way."

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Hill Harper Actor, Author
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"Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing."

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Homer Hickam Author, Engineer
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"A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."

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"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '"

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that."

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