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“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL “Black Voices” poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted “the most important black leader”.

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“The important thing is never to stop questioning.”
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Albert Einstein, (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history.He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”.The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics…

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist.

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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same.”
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Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank: (12 June 1929 – early March 1945)  is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world’s most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands….

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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born 18 July 1918) is a South African political activist, co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993, and in 1994 he became the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections…

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‘A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
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Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955 (born Thomas Lanier Williams III, March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American writer who primarily worked in American theatre writing plays…

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“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
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Honoré de Balzac (1799 –1850) French journalist and writer, one of the creators of realism in literature…

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“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”  

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Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898) was a Prussian/German statesman of the late 19th century, and a dominant figure in world affairs…

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. ”
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

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“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”…

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