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Jerry Brown Politician
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"America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature."

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Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
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"The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often"

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'"

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous."

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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
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"There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information."

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