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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. - Thomas Beecham, 1879 - 1961

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  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Thomas Merton
  5. Benjamin Disraeli
  6. Mark Twain
  7. Benjamin Franklin
  8. Oscar Wilde
  9. Charles Dickens
  10. Edward Abbey
  11. Brendan Behan
  12. Thomas Paine
  13. Bertolt Brecht
  14. Galileo Galilei
  15. Martin Luther King
  16. Kahlil Gibran
  17. W. C. Fields
  18. Charles Lamb
  19. Frederick Douglass
  20. James Joyce
  21. Florynce Kennedy
  22. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  23. Oprah Winfrey
  24. Colette
  25. Thomas More

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