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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."

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Ilchi Lee Author
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"Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist
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"Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."

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