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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
World

"I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!"

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
World

"The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
World

"Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent."

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"Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
World

"When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock"

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Michael Grant Author
World

"The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I don't think something that calls itself a 'world eater' is a good thing."

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