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Malcolm  Collins
“There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

Heath Sommer
“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
Heath Sommer

Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Salman Rushdie
“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."

(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)”
Salman Rushdie

Khaled Hosseini
“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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