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I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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