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Rian Hughes Graphic Novelist
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"How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?"

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Socrates Philosopher
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"All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word."

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Robert Smith Musician
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"I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'"

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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"It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"

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