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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honourable by being necessary.

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale

Born: June 6, 1755
Died: September 22, 1776 (aged 21)
Bio: Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed.

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