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"When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much."

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Bruce Dickinson Musician, Author, Pilot
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"My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'"

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."

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Eric Williams Politician
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"You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss."

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
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"Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing."

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