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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price."

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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning."

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Danny Garcia Boxer
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"It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion."

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