"Beyonce inspires others to dream because she is always reminding us that she was just a young girl from Houston, Texas, who had a dream to be a performer, and look at her now, " says Cori Murray, entertainment editor of Essence Magazine.

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In the seemingly infinite galaxy of philanthropy, the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala sparkled brightly on Friday night, not only honoring chess legend Garry Kasparov, brain-mapping scientist Dr. Cori Bargmann and entrepreneur Richard Branson, but with stratospherically smart award presenters like James Watson, best known for his co-discovery of DNA, election predictor Nate Silver and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

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