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“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
“The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.”
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Scientist (1836) |
| Herbert Baker, Architect (1862) |
| Leslie Banks, Actor (1890) |
| Johnny Depp, Actor (1963) |
| T. D. Jakes, Clergyman (1957) |
| William Maxwell Aitken, Businessman (1964) |
| Arthur Alexander, Musician (1993) |
| Roland Allen, Clergyman (1947) |
| William Carey, Clergyman (1834) |
| Richard Eberhart, Poet (2005) |
| Hans Janmaat, Politician (2002) |
| Jacob Lawrence, Artist (2000) |