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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives."

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Stephen King Author
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"When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism"

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Sufjan Stevens Musician
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"The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last."

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Rory Carroll Journalist
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"South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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"What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?"

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer."

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