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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
World

"The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
World

"The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is."

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Laozi Philosopher
World

"He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world."

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Laozi Philosopher
World

"First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world."

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Laozi Philosopher
World

"Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
World

"Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian."

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