- Edward Jenner
(05/17/1749 – 01/26/1823)
English doctor
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"The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox] was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie."
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"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
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"Without Christian education, without the principles
of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans."
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"I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6"—whatever it was—to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size."
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"We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand."
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"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look.'"
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"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway."
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| "The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." |  |
"The truth is, I made a few good movies in the fifties, then went into freefall."
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"The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off—it was right inside my ordinary daily self—If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person."
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"That's like the Queen Mary losing a deck chair."
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| "Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes." |
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