The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

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• Isaac Newton

  Physicist

  Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
  Monday, Mar 31, 1727

• Dalai Lama

  Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
  

• Mother Teresa

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  Friday, Aug 26, 1910
  Friday, Sep 05, 1997

• Theodore Roosevelt

  26Th U.s. President

  Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
  Monday, Jan 06, 1919

• Khalil Gibran

  Poet

  Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
  Friday, Apr 10, 1931

• Epictetus

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• Oprah Winfrey

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  Friday, Jan 29, 1954
  

• Sun Tzu

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  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Robert Frost

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  Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
  Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963

• Saint Augustine

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  Saturday, Nov 13, 0354
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• John F. Kennedy

  35Th U.s. President

  Tuesday, May 29, 1917
  Friday, Nov 22, 1963

• Abraham Lincoln

  16Th U.S. President

  Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
  Saturday, Apr 15, 1865

• Zig Ziglar

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  Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
  Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012

• Muhammad Ali

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  Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
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• Marcus Tullius Cicero

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