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Ricky Williams Football Player
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"As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy."

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Simon Jordan Businessman
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"I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back"

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip."

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"It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.""

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
World

"The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through."

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