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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
World

"I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
World

"I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people."

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Andrew Saul Nutritionist
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"No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer."

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