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Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.


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STEPHEN SWID Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY