Michael Jackson

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• I can’t think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.

  • War & Peace

• I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

  Press statement (21 July 2003), quoted in “Jackson attacks music piracy bill” in BBC News (22 July 2003)

• I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

  • Music

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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