The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

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• Pope John Paul Ii

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• Martin Luther

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• Thomas Sowell

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• Dolly Parton

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• Mahatma Gandhi

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• Napoleon Hill

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• Sun Tzu

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• Lucy Larcom

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• Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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