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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while."

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Fidel Castro Politician, Revolutionary
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"In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead."

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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world."

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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

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