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United StatesLeadsMichael Jackson
France
LeadsNapoleon
United KingdomLeadsCharlie Chaplin
GermanyLeadsLudwig van Beethoven
Japan
LeadsMatsuo Bashō
SpainLeadsShakira
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LeadsMichelangelo
India
LeadsRabindranath Tagore
Canada
LeadsDrake
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LeadsSocrates
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LeadsRoald Amundsen
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LeadsKylie Minogue
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LeadsLionel Messi
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LeadsMustafa Kemal Atatürk
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LeadsAdolf Hitler
China
LeadsMao Zedong
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“I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.”
Michael Jackson“I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel.”
Donald Trump“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life.”
Barack Obama“(W)hen it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I'm about as liberal as your grandmother. I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far.”
Joe Biden“Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.”
Charlie Chaplin“I want to seize fate by the throat.”
Ludwig van Beethoven“I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one.”
Shakira“If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”
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Bill Gates“Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona.”
Lionel Messi“Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”
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Jesus“What cannot be eschewed must be embraced”
William Shakespeare“Antisemitism based on purely emotional grounds will always find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms.”
Adolf Hitler“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.”
Albert Einstein“I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.”
Michael Jackson“I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel.”
Donald Trump“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life.”
Barack Obama“(W)hen it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I'm about as liberal as your grandmother. I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far.”
Joe Biden“Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.”
Charlie Chaplin“I want to seize fate by the throat.”
Ludwig van Beethoven“I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one.”
Shakira“If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”
Bill Gates“Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona.”
Lionel Messi“Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”
Jesus“What cannot be eschewed must be embraced”
William Shakespeare“Antisemitism based on purely emotional grounds will always find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms.”
Adolf Hitler“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.”
Albert EinsteinWho's #1 in the world
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