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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.”

“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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"So far, only the judicial branch of the government has evinced this quality of leadership. If the executive and legislative branches of the government were as concerned about the protection of our cit…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

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"One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be cre…"

— Stephen Hawking

Science1942–2018

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"Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?"

— Kim Wilde

Music1960

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"Darrall Imhoff, who as a 6-foot-10 rookie center for the New York Knicks had the misfortune of guarding Chamberlain during his 100-point game in 1962, said, "I spent 12 years in his armpits, and I alw…"

— Wilt Chamberlain

Sports1936–1999

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