Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.


Mankind

@ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.


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Hank Aaron

Hank Aaron

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama) is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) player whose career lasted 23 seasons from 1954 to 1976 with the Braves organization in the National League. At Atlanta's Fulton-County Stadium on Monday, April 8, 1974, Aaron hit his 715th career home run, which put him in first place on the all-time list ahead of Babe Ruth. He finished his career with 755 home runs, a record that stood for 33 years until San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds broke it by hitting his 756th career home run on August 7, 2007.

@ Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
Response to Yogi Berra, who told him to turn his bat around so he could see the trademark during the 1957 World Series, as quoted in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (2000) by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard

@ I don't want them to forget Ruth; I just want them to remember me.
When asked how he felt breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs, as quoted in Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes (1997) by Peggy Anderson

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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)



Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement. A Southerner with a PhD in political science, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910. He was Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and led his Democratic Party to win control of both the White House and Congress in 1912.


Quotes·Quotation by Woodrow Wilson

Appearance

¶ As a beauty I am no star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it, It's the people in front that I ajar.