“When I want to use a quotation, I can very seldom do it properly, as the difficulty arises where to look for it in order to work it up.”
A Ramble Round the Globe, Ch. I, pub. Chatto and Windus, London (1894)
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Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar2
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
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“I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.”
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Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)
Honinbo Sansa (1559–1623) go player, founder of the prestigious Hon'inbō school
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Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
Larry Ellison (1944) American internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
Smithsonian Institution Oral and Visual Histories, Oral History Interview with Lawrence Ellison (24 October 1995) http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/le1.html. <br class="br">Context: When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.
Nasser Khalili (1945) British-Iranian scholar, collector and philanthropist
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“I can saw a woman in two.
But you won't want to look in the box when I do”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter
"For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer"
Life'll Kill Ya (2000)
