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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way."

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Sonny Rollins Jazz Musician
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"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."

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"You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity."

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J. Cole Rapper, songwriter
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"When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period."

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