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Bismarck, when asked what was the most important fact in modern history, replied: The fact that North America speaks English.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
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William Gurney Benham
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Born:
February 16, 1859
Died:
May 13, 1944
(aged 85)
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Sir William Gurney Benham was a newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester.
Known for:
How to Choose Vocations from the Hands (1932)
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