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I was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1977 at the same time as the former President Gerald Ford.
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In 1995 I was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award and sat with President Clinton. A boy from Mississippi getting a chance to meet the President of the United States — that was something.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
September 16, 1925
Died:
May 14, 2015
(aged 89)
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