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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons."

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Peter James Author
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"There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world."

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Princess Diana Philanthropist, Humanitarian
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"The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth."

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"There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen."

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"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world."

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