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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together."

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Zhuangzi Philosopher
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"If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there is no one who would not offer it to their parents. If the Tao could be spoken of, there is no one in the world who would not speak of it to their brothers and sisters. if the Tao could be passed on, there is no one who would not pass it on to their heirs. However, it obviously cannot be so and the reason is as follows. If there is no true centre within to receive it, it cannot remain;if there is no true direction outside to guide it,it cannot be received."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight."

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Katie Davis Author
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"I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do."

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John Smith Politician
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"With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world"

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Melinda Gates Philanthropist, businesswoman
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"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world."

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