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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity."

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Prince Philip Royalty
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"Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect."

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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
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"Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone"

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Robert Kennedy Politician
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"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man"

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world."

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Katie Couric Journalist
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"Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you."

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Frank Sinatra Singer, Actor
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"There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu"

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad."

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