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Philander C. Knox
(05/06/1853 – 10/12/1921)
US senator (PA), on the acquisition of the Panama Canal
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"Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality."
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"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash."
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"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
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"To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse."
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"When you know what you're doing you can do what
you want."
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"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it."
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"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
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"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw."
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"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
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"Basically, we put our songs together in very much the same way the guys in Metallica do."
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"I was too busy breaking up Tom and Nicole's marriage."
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| Died 05/05 | Died 05/06 | Died 05/07 | Death Dates |