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"Well, I think it is accidental. It’s just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I think that Dylan Thomas, his prose and poetry, was a big influence on me. Just his …"

— Colin Meloy

Music1974

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"General Franco made it clear that Spain could enter the war only when England was about ready to collapse."

— Wilhelm Canaris

Military1887–1945

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— Harry V. Jaffa

Philosophy1918–2015

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"Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message"

— Kenneth Boulding

Economics1910–1993

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