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Jerry A. Coyne-Biologist

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. - Jerry Coyne

Jerry Allen Coyne (born 1949) is a biologist, known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design. A prolific scientist and author, he has published dozens of papers elucidating the theory of evolution. - Wikipedia

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand-Environmentalist

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. - Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Born 1946) is a French environmentalist, activist, journalist, and photographer. He has also directed films about the impact of humans on the planet. He is especially well known for his book Earth from Above and his films Home and Human. - Wikipedia

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Edward de Bono-Physician

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. - Edward de Bono

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono (born 1933) is a Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools. - Wikipedia

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Alexander Fleming-Physician

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. - Sir Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. He is known for the discovery of penicillin and Lysozyme. - Wikipedia

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Friedrich Schiller-Poet

The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! It sinks with you! With you it will ascend. - Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. - Wikipedia

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Bob Hope-Comedian

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. - Bob Hope

Leslie Townes Hope (1903-2003) known as Bob Hope, was a stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. - Wikipedia

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John Morley-Statesman

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. - John Morley

John Morley (1883-1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. - Wikipedia

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Sugar Ray Robinson-Boxer

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. - Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. - Wikipedia

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José Saramago-Writer

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. - José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (1922-2010) was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. - Wikipedia

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Emmeline Pankhurst-Politician

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. -  Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. - Wikipedia

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Jean Piaget-Psychologist

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. - Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. - Wikipedia

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Sarah Addison Allen-Author

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood. - Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen (born 1971) is an American and New York Times bestselling author. 

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Marc Chagall-Artist

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. - Marc Chagall

Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries, and fine art prints. - Wikipedia

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John James Audubon-Ornithologist

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. - John James Audubon

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. 

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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee-Lecturer

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one’s strength. - Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork, and spirituality. - Wikipedia

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Alan Turing-Mathematician

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. - Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. - Wikipedia

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Alice Mackenzie Swaim-Poet

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice Mackenzie Swaim 

Alice Mackenzie Swaim (1911-1996) was a British Poet.

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George Pólya-Mathematician

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. - George Polya

George Pólya (1887-1985) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. - Wikipedia

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Junot Díaz-Writer

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work. - Junot Diaz

Junot Díaz (born 49) is a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. - Wikipedia

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-Novelist

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. - Wikipedia

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Diogenes-Philosopher

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes

Diogenes (412 BC-323 BC) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea. - Wikipedia

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Charles Dickens-Writer

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. - Wikipedia

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John Cleese-Actor

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating. - John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. 

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Al Neuharth-Businessman 

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. - Al Neuharth

Allen Harold "Al" Neuharth (1924-2013) was an American businessman, author, and columnist.  - Wikipedia

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Charles Darling- Lawyer

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. - Charles John Darling

Charles John Darling (1849-1936) was an English lawyer, politician and later a High Court judge. - Wikipedia

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Tim Duncan-Sportsperson

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. - Tim Duncan

DescriptionTimothy Theodore Duncan (born 1976)  is a retired professional basketball player. - Wikipedia

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Persius-Poet

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. - Persius

Persius, Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-64)  was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. - Wikipedia

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Tao Te Ching - Chinese Text

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. 

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen-Singer-songwriter

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny. - Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born 1949) is a singer-songwriter. - Wikipedia

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel-Philosopher

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
DescriptionGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. He achieved wide recognition in his day and—while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy—has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. - Wikipedia

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Alexa Hirschfeld-Entrepreneur

I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say. - Alexa Hirschfeld

Alexa Hirschfeld is an entrepreneur. Hirschfeld co-founded the online invitation website Paperless Post. - Wikipedia

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Camille Claudel-Sculptor

Never think in surfaces, think in depths. - Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was a French sculptor. Although she died in relative obscurity, Claudel has gained recognition for the originality of her work. - Wikipedia

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Charles William Eliot-Academic

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. - Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. - Wikipedia

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George Savile - Politician

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. - George Savile

George Savile (1633-1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician.  - Wikipedia

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Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali-Philosopher

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls. - Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. He was of Persian origin. - Wikipedia

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William Thurston-Mathematician

Mathematics is an art of human understanding. - William Thurston

William Paul Thurston (1946-2012) was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. - Wikipedia

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Dante Gabriel Rossett-Poet

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived. - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. - Wikipedia

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Leon Trotsky -Revolutionary

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. - Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism. - Wikipedia

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Maria Popova-Writer

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminately curious. - Maria Popova

Maria Popova (born 1985) is a Bulgarian-born writer, blogger, literary and cultural critic. She is known for her speeches and her blog BrainPickings.org, which features her writing on culture, books, philosophy and eclectic subjects on and off the Internet. - Wikipedia

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Dejan Stojanović-Poet

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness. - Dejan Stojanović

Dejan Stojanović (born 1959) is a Serbian poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist. His poetry is characterized by a recognizable system of thought and poetic devices, bordering on philosophy, and, overall, it has a highly reflective tone. - Wikipedia

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Nadine Gordimer-Writer

The facts are always less than what really happened. - Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.  -  Wikipedia

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Georges Braque-Painter

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. - Georges Braque

Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. - Wikipedia

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Kazuo Ishiguro-Novelist

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? - Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five. - Wikipedia

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Desiderius Erasmus-Scholar

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. - Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466-1536) was a Dutch scholar of the northern Renaissance. He was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. - Wikipedia

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John Maxwell Coetzee-Novelist

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths. - John Maxwell Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940) is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. - Wikipedia

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Konrad Lorenz-Zoologist

We do not take humor seriously enough. - Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903-1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. - Wikipedia

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Thomas J. Watson-Businessman

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. - Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. (1874-1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines. - Wikipedia

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Khaled Hosseini-Novelist

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. - Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. - Wikipedia

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Nicki Minaj-Rapper

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up. - Nicki Minaj

Onika Tanya Maraj, known professionally as Nicki Minaj (born 1982) is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. - Wikipedia

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C. S. Lewis-Writer

The task of a modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-19630 was a British writer. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. - Wikipedia