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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington was born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family and was educated to become a gentleman of the 18th century. He had a strong interest in military arts and western expansion, and at the age of 16, he helped survey land for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. During the French and Indian War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and served as an aide to General Edward Braddock. Between 1759 and the outbreak of the American Revolution, he managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein was a renowned German-born theoretical physicist and one of the most influential scientists of all time. He is best known for developing the theory of relativity, which revolutionized the understanding of space and time, and his mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2, which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”. He also made significant contributions to the development of quantum mechanics and his work had a profound impact on the philosophy of science. In 1905, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers that outlined the theory of the photoelectric effect, explained Brownian motion, introduced special relativity and demonstrated mass-energy equivalence. Throughout his career, Einstein attempted to unify the laws of physics and opposed the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. He left Germany in 1933 due to the rise of the Nazi regime and later became an American citizen. He also played a key role in warning the US government of the potential dangers of nuclear weapons during World War II.

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