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Romain Rolland-Dramatist

A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't. - Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. - Wikipedia

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Anacharsis-Philosopher

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. - Anacharsis

Anacharsis (600s BC) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian". Wikipedia

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Poet

Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was a prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States. - Wikipedia

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Rosanne Cash-Singer

Sometimes you're the Rose; sometimes you're the thorn. - Rosie Cash

Rosanne Cash (1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. - Wikipedia 

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Jonathan Winters – Comedian

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it. - Jonathon Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (1925-2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. - Wikipedia

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Lady Mary Montagu-Writer

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. - Lady Mary Wortley Montag

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was an English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire. - Wikipedia

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A.L. Williams-Businessman

When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself.- A.L. Williams

Arthur L. "Art" Williams Jr. (born 1942) is an insurance executive living in Palm Beach, Florida. He founded  A.L. Williams & Associates. - Wikipedia

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Joseph Brodsky-Poet

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. - Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (born 1940-1996) was a poet and essayist. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and he settled in the United States. - Wikipedia

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Margaret Fuller-Journalist

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller(1810-1850) was journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate. she is also associated with the American transcendentalism movement. - Wikipedia

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Pythagoras-Philosopher

The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no" — are those which require the most thought. - Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (570BC-495BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and putative founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He is a great mathematician and scientist. - Wikipedia

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Horace Mann-Educator

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. - Horace Mann

Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature. - Wikipedia

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Studs Terkel-Author

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. - Studs Terkel

Louis "Studs" Terkel (1912-2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985. - Wikipedia

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Lorraine Hansberry-Playwright

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. - Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. - Wikipedia

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Walter Gropius-Architect

Architecture begins where engineering ends. - Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (1883-1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. - Wikipedia

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Alan Kay-Computer scientist

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. - Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940) is a computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. - Wikipedia

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Shah Rukh Khan-Actor

I've learned from the people of my country that the dignity of a life, a human being, a culture, a religion, a country actually resides in its ability for grace and compassion. - Shah Rukh Khan

One of the world's biggest movie stars, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965)  is also an entrepreneur and inspired philanthropist. He heads the film production company Red Chillies Entertainments.  - TED Talk

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Robert Owen-Social activist

Man is the creature of circumstances. - Robert Owen

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. - Wikipedia

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Sophia Loren-Actress

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. - Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren (born 1934) is an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 15. - Wikipedia

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Brené Brown-Scholar

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world. - Brene Brown

Brené Brown (born 1965) is an American scholar, author, and public speaker. She is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. - Wikipedia

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Victoria Woodhull-Author

I endeavor to make the most of everything. - Victoria Woodhull 

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. In 1872, Woodhull ran for President of the United States. - Wikipedia

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Charles Simic-Poet

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time. - Charles Simic

Charles Simic (born 1938) is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990. - Wikipedia

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Alexis Carrel-Surgeon

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.- Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. - Wikipedia

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Muhammad Yunus-Nobel Laureate

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability. - Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. - Wikipedia 

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Maximilien Robespierre-Politician

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien François

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794) was a French lawyer and politician, one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. - Wikipedia

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Abba Eban-Diplomat

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. - Abba Eban

Abba Eban (1915-2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. - Wikipedia

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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. - André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. - Wikipedia

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Paul Valéry-Poet

Power without abuse loses its charm. - Paul Valery

Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (1871-1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. - Wikipedia

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George Gordon Byron-Poet

A drop of ink may make a million think. - George Gordon Byron.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. - Wikipedia

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Rosalynn Carter-Former US First Lady

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (born 1927) is the wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. - Wikipedia

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William Hazlitt-Writer

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. - William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. -  Wikipedia

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May Sarton-Poet

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. - May Sarton

May Sarton (1912-1995) is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist. - Wikipedia

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Kevin Kelly-Editor

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.- Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. - Wikipedia

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