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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life."

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Horace Mann Educator
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"The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise"

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Huston Smith Philosopher
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"The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves."

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