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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
Euclid
Newton
Straight
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Wavers

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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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