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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
I wrote a book called From Chocolate to Morphine, which was a review of all drugs that can affect the mind. And there was an organized attempt, this was in the early 1980s, to ban the book. And a prominent senator from Florida stood up on the floor of the Senate and waved the book around and said that this was a very dangerous book, because it was neutral, that it didn't tell people to not use substances. And that's exactly what I aimed for; I wanted to put out neutral information. And I think that when you're working in situations that are very polarized, often neither side understands the middle position. You know, the position of neither advocating nor discouraging, of just trying to carve out a balanced path.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
I think one of the greatest periods in my life is when I decided to leave American Express, because most people don't get to know what people really think about them when they're alive. And you know, you always wonder, "Are people friendly with you -- or people paying attention to you, they make believe they like you -- because of your position and what you can do for them?" And I think what was really great is that when I left I didn't have this position of power at American Express. And the first thing that was important about that was it helped my relationship with my children a lot, because they always looked at me as this person that could never do anything wrong, and therefore they couldn't contribute. And all of a sudden, they saw their father was vulnerable, and it helped create more of an equal kind of relationship with each other, where we respect each other a lot, and that was a very, very important thing that happened.
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Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize for Peace
You can be a silent witness, which means silence itself can become a way of communication. There is so much in silence. There is an archeology of silence. There is a geography of silence. There is a theology of silence. There is a history of silence. Silence is universal and you can work within it, within its own parameters and its own context, and make that silence into a testimony. Job was silent after he lost his children and everything, his fortune and his health. Job, for seven days and seven nights he was silent, and his three friends who came to visit him were also silent. That must have been a powerful silence, a brilliant silence. You see, silence itself can be testimony and I was waiting for ten years, really, but it wasn't the intention. My intention simply was to be sure that the words I would use are the proper words. I was afraid of language.
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