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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists"
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
between July 1, 1742 and February 24, 1799. He/she was a famous
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