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Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter. His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 ...Wikipedia
Born: May 10, 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Died: June 22, 1987, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height: 1.75 m
Spouse: Robyn Smith (m. 1980–1987), Phyllis Potter (m. 1933–1954)
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I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

The way Fred Astaire sings it, “By Myself” is “the jauntiest, happiest breakup song ever written.”
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How the Unflappable Fred Astaire Survived the Fifties
The plot of the 1953 film ‘The Band Wagon’ mirrored Fred Astaire's own career crisis.
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After meeting David Hilbert, Einstein spent what he described as the most exhausting and stimulating of his entire life. Find out why. (Partner content via BBVA OpenMind)



David Hilbert: the architect of modern mathematics - OpenMind
David Hilbert laid the foundations of twentieth-century mathematics. His race with Einstein in General Relativity and his activist commitments influenced…
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David Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Wikipedia
Born: January 23, 1862, Königsberg, Germany
Died: February 14, 1943, Göttingen, Germany
Spouse: Käthe Jerosch (m. 1892–1943)
Education: University of Königsberg (1880–1885), more
Quotes

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.


In English:
We must know.
We will know.

Hilbert's tomb:
Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen



The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

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