- Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt
(06/22/1767 – 04/08/1835)
German philosopher
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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
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"Large parties given to very young children . . . foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child."
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"The triumph of sugar over diabetes."
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
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| "Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating." |  |
"Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and a way of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers."
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"Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble."
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| Died 04/07 | Died 04/08 | Died 04/09 | Death Dates |