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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
| Kit Carson, Explorer (1809) |
| Ava Gardner, Actress (1922) |
| Tarja Halonen, Statesman (1943) |
| Saint Ignatius, Saint (1491) |
| Johnny Isakson, Politician (1944) |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet (1881) |
| James Prescott Joule, Physicist (1818) |
| Anil Kapoor, Actor (1959) |
| Hamid Karzai, Statesman (1957) |
| Joel Barlow, Poet (1812) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1850) |
| William Cameron Forbes, Diplomat (1959) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (2005) |


