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Blaise Pascal

a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

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Martin Luther King Jr

United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

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Walt Whitman

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Montesquieu

French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)

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Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor, who has sold more than 100 million records

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues

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Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

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Sacha Guitry

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

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Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

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Sappho

Cyprian, in my dream
Cyprian, in my dream
the folds of a purple
kerchief shadowed
your cheeks --- the one
Timas one time sent,
a timid gift, all
the way from Phocaea
Sappho
tr. Barnard

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Robert Louis Stevenson

To Madame Garschine
WHAT is the face, the fairest face, till Care,
Till Care the graver - Care with cunning hand,
Etches content thereon and makes it fair,
Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silent Love. (From The German)

Who love would seek,
Let him love evermore
And seldom speak:
For in love's domain
Silence must reign;
Or it brings the heart
Smart
And pain.

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