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		Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Curtis Granderson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Quammen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. S. Eliot
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Remarks about the first White House Science Fair in 2010. 'It’s a prototype!' Tune in for President Obama’s Last Science Fair, April 13th (quote from video published on April 12, 2016)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anatoli Boukreev
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'd like you to comment on the angry mob that surrounded Karl Rove's house on Sunday. — April 1, 2004
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeff Gannon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Al Jarreau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				F. Scott Fitzgerald
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Feldstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Umberto Eco
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree-
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sara Teasdale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Alda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Katharine Kolcaba
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adrienne Mayor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
Opened in airs of June her multitude
Of golden chalices to humming-birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Cullen Bryant
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bertil Ohlin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lisa Jewell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Shakespeare
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ann Sothern
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I know April, May and June are a few unbearable months, and working out in a gym and sweating in such dirty hot, sticky, humid weather puts me off. The best way is to swim. I feel so fresh and rejuvenated after swimming, and I believe it's one of the best mode to fitness during summers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ashish Sharma
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Saw the English pilots coming from the sea in huge bands like the bristling hair of Zeus Jupiter. Heard all destroyed in Frankfurt. Sad... (12 April 1944)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Max Beckmann