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Baba Hari Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside."

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Deng Xiaoping Politician
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"No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production."

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Alexander the Great Military Leader, King
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"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"

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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
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"When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again"

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"The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on."

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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
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"There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself."

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Ricky Martin Singer, Actor
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"I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria."

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Leonard Bernstein Composer, Conductor
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"It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured."

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