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  • James Baldwin Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anthony Doerr Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Blair Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • John Keats Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Assata Shakur Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Bill Viola Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bono As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Katchor As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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