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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts."

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things."

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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
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"Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden."

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Dan Brown Author
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"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."

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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil."

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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!"

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render."

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Dan Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with."

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