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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
Louis Althusser, Philosopher (1918) |
Mary Daly, Theologian (1928) |
Jeremy Jackson, Actor (1980) |
Gary Kemp, Musician (1959) |
Angela Lansbury, Actress (1925) |
Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher (1962) |
Mel Carnahan, Politician (2000) |
Dan Dailey, Actor (1978) |
Moshe Dayan, Soldier (1981) |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Soldier (1946) |
Alfred Jodl, Soldier (1946) |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Soldier (1946) |
Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity (1946) |
Deborah Kerr, Actress (2007) |