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“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.”
-Horace Greeley
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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant. He lost in a landslide.
Click here to read his complete Wikipedia profile
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Listen to the 2017 recording of saxophonist Kamasi Washington performing his composition “Truth” [Beggars Group Digital Ltd]
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