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Richard Lamm
Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm, born on September 12, 1935, is a former Governor of Colorado, United States. He has a rich political career and served as the Governor of Colorado, where he made significant contributions in environmental protection, educational reform, and healthcare. more

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“Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.”

“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.”