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[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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