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Socrates
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I know that I know nothing. Drank hemlock rather than stop questioning everything.
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To know what is right and not do it is worst cowardice.
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AC power. Radio. X-rays. Visionary genius who lit the world but died alone.
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Conquered the world by 30.
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Be the change": Gandhi, nonviolent leader, freed India.
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And yet it moves. Father of modern science who saw Jupiter's moons and defied the Church.
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We shall fight on": Churchill led Britain through its darkest hour.
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