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Mortimer Adler Philosopher, Educator
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"A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser."

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
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"Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you."

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Prince Musician, Singer, Songwriter
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"I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. ."

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
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"The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred"

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Assata Shakur Activist
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"We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world."

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