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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?"

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Seth Musician
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"Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that."

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Richard Bach Author
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"Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen."

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Richard Ford Novelist
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"If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life."

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"Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning."

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Rob Machado Surfer
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"I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?"

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