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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner."

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Stephen King Author
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"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
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"If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations."

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Roger Cohen Journalist
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"Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world."

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Steven Morrissey Singer-Songwriter
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"I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse."

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