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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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You can't save kids just with vaccines. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#kids #save #vaccines #you

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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