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"I want to emphasize that the question of regulating birth rates is highly complex and that any standardized, dogmatic solution "for all time and all peoples" would be wrong."

— Andrei Sakharov

Science1921–1989

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"It takes twenty years to make an overnight success."

— Eddie Cantor

Entertainment1892–1964

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"widespread feeling that newspapers are failing in their duty of truly representing the complexity of some of the most important issues in society."

— Alan Rusbridger

Journalism1953

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"Caesar did not confine himself to helping the debtor for the moment; he did what as legislator he could, permanently to keep down the fearful omnipotence of capital. First of all the great legal maxim…"

— Theodor Mommsen

Science1817–1903

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