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Emanuel James Rohn (1930 – 2009), Professionally known as Jim Rohn, was an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. He wrote numerous books including "How to obtain wealth and happiness". He was born in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Caldwell, Idaho, where his parents own and worked a farm. Rohn became a millionaire at age 30, and went broke when he was 33. He later became a millionaire again. Jim Rohn shared his message with more than 5 million people and 6,000 audiences all over the world. He received numerous industry awards including the National Speakers Association CPAE Award and the Master of Influence Award. More

James Arthur Baldwin (1924 –1987) was an American writer, orator and activist. As a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005. His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, was published in 1955. Baldwin was also a well-known, and controversial, public figure, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States.

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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" Ten Boom (1892 – 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker, resistance hero and later a Christian writer and public speaker. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during World War II, and how after she was caught, arrested and sent to a concentration camp she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned.
Quote source: Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook  

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Loy • 12/30/2024 at 10:52PM • Like Profile

So true

Avram Noam Chomsky, born in 1928 is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s. More Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media. More


William Blake - (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Although Blake was largely unrecognized during his life, he is now considered an influential figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, but he is now held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Read more

George Santayana - (1863 – 1952) ~ Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic and novelist. Born in Spain and raised and educated in the US from the age of eight. He left his position at Harvard at the age of 48 and returned to Europe permanently. Santayana was the author of many books and is popularly known for his aphorisms. He was profoundly influenced by Spinoza's life and thought. Although he was an atheist, he treasured the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview in which he was raised.

Quote source: –The Life of Reason: Reason in Society, Scribner

Eduardo Hughes Galeano, (1940 - 2015) was an Uruguayan journalist, writer, poet and novelist. Among his many books, Galiano's best-known works are "Las venas abiertas de América Latina" (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and ""Memoria del fuego" (Memory of Fire Trilogy - 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "I am obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. His first or paternal surname is Hughes and the second or maternal family name is Galeano. His two family names were inherited from Welsh and Italian great-grandfathers; the other two were from Germany and Spain. Galeano wrote under his maternal family name.

George Santayana - (1863 – 1952)  ~ Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic and novelist. Born in Spain and raised and educated in the US from the age of eight. He left his position at Harvard at the age of 48 and returned to Europe permanently. Santayana was the author of many books and known for his aphorisms. He was profoundly influenced by Spinoza's life and thought. Although he was an atheist, he treasured the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview in which he was raised.