“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
— Bessie Coleman
Author: Bessie Coleman
Category: women
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“The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.”
— Dominic Cooper
Author: Dominic Cooper
Category: education
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“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”
— Charles Babbage
Author: Charles Babbage
Category: time
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