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What Mighty Moustaches Left Behind That We Can Now Live By... #TBT

We look back at famous men throughout history who now have people living by their quotes.

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1. Che Guevara - "Silence is argument carried out by other means."

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.

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2. William Taft - "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). He is the only person to have served in both of these offices.

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3. George Orwell - "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.

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4. Albert Einstein - "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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5. Charlie Chaplin - "Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural."

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent era.

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6. Friedrich Nietzsche - "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.

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7. Salvador Dali - "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, in the Catalonia region of Spain.

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8. Chuck Norris - "Good morals lead to good laws."

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do.

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9. Theodore Roosevelt - "It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity.

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10. Charles Darwin - "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

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