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All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

Luck - Mythology - Outbreak - Realization - State - Trial - Unions

Melinda Gates (1964 - )

Businesswoman, Philanthropist

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Liberalism - State - Unions

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Paul McCartney

Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Composer

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Making - Pianist - Songs - Thrill - Trial

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Neil Young

Singer, Songwriter

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Belief - Creativity - Organizing - Realization

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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Actor - Movies - Studying - Trial - Wants

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John Calvin

Theologian, Pastor, Reformer

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

End - Safety - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Organizing - Trial

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.

Belief - Citizenry - Safety - State

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Steve Martin

Comedian, Actor, Musician, Writer, Filmmaker

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

Challenge - Giving - Show - Trial

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

Accident - Celebration - Man - Poetry - Reward - State

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Malcolm Forbes

Publisher

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Enjoying - Making - Trial

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Spike Milligan

Comedian, Writer, Musician, Poet, Playwright, Actor

The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.

Dining - Trial

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Mariah Carey

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

Suppression - Trial

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Lana Del Rey

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

Mindset - Trial

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Henry Ford

Businessman, Industrialist

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

Agreeing - Certainty - Mindset - Principle - State

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Jimi Hendrix

Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Blessing - Playing - Trial - Wonder

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Michael Palin

Comedian, Actor, Writer

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Luck

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George Clooney

Actor, Filmmaker

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

Film - Luck - Open - Willing

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

Knowledge - Man - Trial - Yielding

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Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, Singer

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Inspiration - Realization - Wants

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Michelle Obama

Former First Lady of the United States

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

Dieting - Emotions - State

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Certainty - State

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Trial

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer, Political Activist

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

Affairs - Creativity - Giving - Man - Objectification - State

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Finding - Trial

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

Loss - State - Unions

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Robert Frost

Poet

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

Art - Celebration - State

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

Mindset - Trial

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

Citizenry - Creativity - End - Making - Man - Mastering - Politics - State - Unions

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Malcolm Forbes

Publisher

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

Trial

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

Boredom - Crying - Man - Meaning - Realization - Wants

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet, Critic, Philosopher, Theologian

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

Reading - Slavery - State - Worthlessness

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

Consciousness - Dependence - Envy - Feelings - Gratefulness - Kindness - Pleasure - State

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