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Helen Thomas Journalist
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"I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?"

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Petrarch Poet, Scholar
Born

"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another."

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Martin Heidegger Philosopher
Born

"What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote."

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