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🇿🇦Elon Musk

Business

b. 1971

"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."

"I am America’s hope and the president’s nightmare."

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John James Cowperthwaite

Economics

1915–2006

"Sir John Cowperthwaite's obituary from the Daily Telegraph"

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Robert Erskine Childers

Literature

1870–1922

"....death stills the bitterest controversy."

"We must stop spending money that we just don’t have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth."

"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."

"Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter."

"My commitment in fighting to end these counterproductive regime change wars is based on these experiences and my understanding the cost of war and who pays the price."

"I am delighted to hear the popularity of Odori Maharaja among young people here. Our children were delighted to see Odori Asimo - the dancing robot!"

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🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

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🇮🇳Salil Shetty

b. 1961

"The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time."

"As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth, ... We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do."

"It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position."

"If you do not like it here, you can leave, but under the earth, not over it."

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🇬🇧Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics

1861–1940

"Eudoxus was perhaps the greatest of all Archimedes's predecessors, and it is his achievements, especially the discovery of the method of exhaustion, which interest us in connexion with Archimedes."

"… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…"

"The serene and blessed mood which enables us to see into the life of things: that is imaginative reason, that is the Spirit of the Chinese People."

"Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined."

"I will be a true and faithful prime minister, so help me God."

"Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough."

"No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism."

"I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable."

"Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that."

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William Harrison Moreland

Literature

1868–1938

"It became a fashion to raid a village or group of villages without any obvious justification, and carry off the inhabitants as slaves."

"I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did."

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🇮🇳Rajendra K. Pachauri

Economics

1940–2020

"Give up meat for one day initially, and decrease it from there. In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity."

"There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use."

"The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality."

"The multicultural society is an illusion of intellectuals."

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🇺🇸Christopher A. Wray

Law

b. 1966

"One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat on their end, and I think it's going to take a whole-of-society response by us."

"If you have a treasurer, that means you have a lot of money."

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🇨🇴Alfonso Uribe Misas

Politics

1886–1984

"History has a long patience, and wait centuries and centuries to condemn the defamation of men."

"It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy."

🇮🇹Giovanni Carandente

"For the first ten years or so, you would always question whether the decisions were right or wrong, but you have to learn to put things behind you once a decision is made. You can't be wishy-washy about it."

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