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- A. A. Milne
- Abdul Kalam
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Maslow
- Adam Smith
- Adele
- Adolf Hitler
- Aeschylus
- Agatha Christie
- Alan Rickman
- Alan Watts
- Albert Camus
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Schweitzer
- Aldo Leopold
- Aldous Huxley
- Aleister Crowley
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Pope
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Alice Walker
- Allen Ginsberg
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amelia Earhart
- Amy Poehler
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Jackson
- Andy Rooney
- Andy Warhol
- Angela Davis
- Angelina Jolie
- Ann Coulter
- Anna Kendrick
- Anne Frank
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Sexton
- Annie Dillard
- Ansel Adams
- Anthony Bourdain
- Anton Chekhov
- Aristotle
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Miller
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Audre Lorde
- Audrey Hepburn
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Avril Lavigne
- Ayn Rand
- Babe Ruth
- Barack Obama
- Barbara Jordan
- Bell Hooks
- Ben Stein
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernard Sanders
- Bernie Sanders
- Bertrand Russell
- Bette Davis
- Bill Cosby
- Bill Gates
- Bill Hicks
- Bill Maher
- Bill Watterson
- Billie Joe Armstrong
- Billy Graham
- Billy Joel
- Billy Sunday
- Black Elk
- Blaise Pascal
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Hope
- Bob Marley
- Bono
- Booker T. Washington
- Brad Pitt
- Brian Tracy
- Britney Spears
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Springsteen
- Buddha
- Buffalo Bill
- C. S. Lewis
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carl Jung
- Carl Sagan
- Carlos Castaneda
- Carly Fiorina
- Carrie Fisher
- Carrie Underwood
- Carter G. Woodson
- Casey Stengel
- Chanakya
- Charles Barkley
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Manson
- Charles Spurgeon
- Charles Stanley
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Sheen
- Charlotte Bronte
- Che Guevara
- Cheryl Strayed
- Chief Joseph
- Chris Rock
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Walken
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Clint Eastwood
- Coco Chanel
- Colin Powell
- Condoleezza Rice
- Confucius
- Cormac McCarthy
- Cornel West
- Corrie Ten Boom
- Daisaku Ikeda
- Dalai Lama
- Dale Carnegie
- Dan Quayle
- Dante Alighieri
- Dave Barry
- Dave Chappelle
- Dave Grohl
- Dave Matthews
- David Bowie
- David Foster Wallace
- David Hume
- David Lynch
- David Sedaris
- Deepak Chopra
- Demetri Martin
- Demi Lovato
- Denzel Washington
- Desmond Tutu
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dolly Parton
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Donald Trump
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dr. Seuss
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dylan Thomas
- E. E. Cummings
- Earl Nightingale
- Eckhart Tolle
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Wharton
- Edmund Burke
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Eduardo Galeano
- Edward Abbey
- Elbert Hubbard
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elie Wiesel
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Elvis Presley
- Emily Bronte
- Emily Dickinson
- Eminem
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Watson
- Emo Philips
- Epictetus
- Epicurus
- Eric Hoffer
- Erich Fromm
- Erma Bombeck
- Ernest Hemingway
- Erykah Badu
- Euripides
- Evel Knievel
- Ezra Pound
- Garrison Keillor
- Garth Brooks
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Burns
- George Carlin
- George Eliot
- George H. W. Bush
- George Harrison
- George Lucas
- George MacDonald
- George Orwell
- George S. Patton
- George Santayana
- George Soros
- George Strait
- George W. Bush
- George Washington
- Gerard Way
- Gertrude Stein
- Gloria Steinem
- Golda Meir
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Gordon Ramsay
- Gore Vidal
- Groucho Marx
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- H. G. Wells
- Harper Lee
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Harrison Ford
- Harry S. Truman
- Haruki Murakami
- Hedy Lamarr
- Helen Keller
- Henri Nouwen
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Ford
- Henry James
- Henry Miller
- Henry Rollins
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Heraclitus
- Herbert Hoover
- Herbert Spencer
- Herman Melville
- Herodotus
- Hillary Clinton
- Hippocrates
- Horace Mann
- Howard Schultz
- Howard Zinn
- Hulk Hogan
- Hunter S. Thompson
- J. K. Rowling
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack London
- Jack Nicholson
- Jack Welch
- Jackie Chan
- James Allen
- James Baldwin
- James Dean
- James Joyce
- James Madison
- James Thurber
- Jane Austen
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jeb Bush
- Jeff Bezos
- Jennifer Lopez
- Jerry Garcia
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Jesse Jackson
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Jim Carrey
- Jim Henson
- Jim Morrison
- Jim Rohn
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimmy Buffett
- Jimmy Carter
- Jimmy Fallon
- Joan Didion
- Joan Rivers
- Jodi Picoult
- Joe Biden
- Joe Rogan
- Joel Osteen
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Adams
- John C. Maxwell
- John Calvin
- John Dewey
- John Donne
- John F. Kennedy
- John Keats
- John Lennon
- John Locke
- John Mayer
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Milton
- John Muir
- John Piper
- John Steinbeck
- John Stuart Mill
- John Waters
- John Wooden
- Johnny Cash
- Johnny Depp
- Jon Stewart
- Jonathan Edwards
- Jonathan Swift
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Jose Marti
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Stalin
- Jules Renard
- Jules Verne
- Julia Child
- Julie Andrews
- Julius Caesar
- Justin Bieber
- Justin Timberlake
- Lady Gaga
- Lance Armstrong
- Langston Hughes
- Lao Tzu
- Larry David
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lauren Bacall
- Lauryn Hill
- Layne Staley
- LeBron James
- Lee Iacocca
- Lena Dunham
- Leo Buscaglia
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonard Cohen
- Leonardo DaVinci
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Brown
- Lewis Black
- Lewis Carroll
- Liam Neeson
- Lil Wayne
- Lou Holtz
- Louis C. K.
- Louis Farrakhan
- Louisa May Alcott
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Madeleine Albright
- Mae West
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Malcolm X
- Mao Zedong
- Marcel Proust
- Marco Rubio
- Marcus Aurelius
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Mead
- Margaret Thatcher
- Mariah Carey
- Marianne Williamson
- Marilyn Manson
- Marilyn Monroe
- Mark Twain
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Marquis de Sade
- Marshall McLuhan
- Martha Graham
- Martin Luther King jr.
- Mary Kay Ash
- Mary Oliver
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Max Lucado
- Maya Angelou
- Maynard James Keenan
- Megan Fox
- Meister Eckhart
- Mel Brooks
- Meryl Streep
- Mia Hamm
- Michael Jackson
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Phelps
- Michael Pollan
- Michel Foucault
- Michelangelo
- Michelle Obama
- Mick Jagger
- Mike Pence
- Mike Tyson
- Milan Kundera
- Miley Cyrus
- Milton Friedman
- Mindy Kaling
- Miranda Lambert
- Mitch Albom
- Mitch Hedberg
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Moliere
- Morgan Freeman
- Mother Teresa
- Muriel Spark
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ram Dass
- Rand Paul
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Chandler
- Richard Bach
- Richard Branson
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Pryor
- Rick Warren
- Rihanna
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Robert Burns
- Robert E. Lee
- Robert Frost
- Robert Kennedy
- Robert Kiyosaki
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robin Williams
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Ron Paul
- Ronald Reagan
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rumi
- Rush Limbaugh
- Russell Brand
- Saint Augustine
- Sally Field
- Sally Ride
- Salvador Dali
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Johnson
- Sarah Palin
- Sean Connery
- Selena Gomez
- Serena Williams
- Seth Godin
- Shel Silverstein
- Shia LaBeouf
- Sigmund Freud
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Socrates
- Sophocles
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Covey
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen King
- Steve Irwin
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Martin
- Steven Spielberg
- Steven Wright
- Stevie Nicks
- Stevie Wonder
- Sun Tzu
- Susan B. Anthony
- Susan Sontag
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sylvester Stallone
- Sylvia Plath
- T. S. Eliot
- Tao Te Ching
- Taylor Swift
- Temple Grandin
- Tennessee Williams
- Terence McKenna
- The Little Prince
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hobbes
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas S. Monson
- Thomas Sowell
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thucydides
- Tiger Woods
- Tim Berners Lee
- Tim Burton
- Tina Fey
- Tom Hanks
- Tom Hiddleston
- Tom Petty
- Tom Robbins
- Tom Waits
- Toni Morrison
- Tony Dungy
- Tony Robbins
- Truman Capote
- Tupac Shakur
- Tyler Perry
- Tyra Banks
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Walt Disney
- Walt Whitman
- Warren Buffett
- Washington Irving
- Wayne Dyer
- Wendell Berry
- Will Rogers
- Will Smith
- Willa Cather
- William Blake
- William Golding
- William James
- William Penn
- William S. Burroughs
- William Shakespeare
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- William Wordsworth
- Willie Nelson
- Winston Churchill
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woody Allen