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Graeme Smith Cricketer
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"The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia."

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Franz Kafka Writer
World

"In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
World

"The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history of imperialism, there were huge demonstrations, before the war was officially launched."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last."

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Henry Ford Industrialist
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"People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is."

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Fred Wilson Artist, Curator
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"The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in."

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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me."

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