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Carl Thomas Rowan (August 11, 1925 - September 23, 2000) was a nationally-syndicated African American op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times..

"My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog."

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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."

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"We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it."

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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."

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