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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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