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“That’s who I am. I don’t look much like him now with my foot wrapped up and all that kind of business.”

“Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.”

“Never play ragtime fast at any time.”

“Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares.”

“What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians.”

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"In point of fact, the meteor was something like 30 km when it exploded. It was over north Waterloo and I was north of St Agatha. Two spherical clouds, and two explosions. Unfortunately, I was dealing …"

— James Nicoll

Literature

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"Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under thei…"

— Wilhelm II

Politics1859–1941

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"Time cover Story on Van Allen"

— James Van Allen

Science1914

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"I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime"… "Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum"

— Janna Levin

Mathematics1967

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