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“…My early beginnings, as most Negroes in the United States, has been the Negro experience. This is all I knew at one time was the Negro experience. My whole background, Negro family, Negro community, everything was Negro. So I think it was natural that I would use this symbol for my expression, you see…”

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— Mitt Romney

Politics1947

#power

"The portrait Carlyle has drawn of Cagliostro is the one most familiar to English readers. Now, though Carlyle's judgments have in the main been upheld by the latest historians , nevertheless, like eve…"

— Alessandro Cagliostro

Medicine1743–1795

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"I often asked myself the following question. There is no doubt that at all times for many men one of the greatest tortures of their lives has been the contact, the collision with the folly of their ne…"

— José Ortega y Gasset

Philosophy1883–1955

#knowledge

"We are are a very individualistic nation. ... Individualism has its merits in producing strong, independent, virile nations; but in war individualism has its manifold defects. ... he nation has not ye…"

— David Lloyd George

Politics1863–1945

#war