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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
World

"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."

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Zhuangzi Philosopher
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"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love."

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