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He grew rich and famous, casting off the hardships of his early life.
When the king fell ill, he summoned the famous physician to treat him.
You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?"
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy.
The most famous statue in the world.
I thought I was famous enough that I would raise the money within one month, but I've been humbled.
As the world's most famous fictional detective would say, "Watson, the game is afoot."
Some famous ones like the Open University, which has 110,000 students, the University of the Third Age, which has nearly half a million older people teaching other older people, as well as strange things like DIY garages and language lines and schools for social entrepreneurs.
One of the most famous Pythagorean triples is 3, 4, 5, and that triangle is hiding all over your chessboard.
His famous evolutionary tree could almost be a diagram of the way we work.
So William Beveridge, when he wrote the first of his famous reports in 1942, created what became Britain's welfare state in which he hoped that every citizen would be an active participant in their own social well-being.
So it was coming in, and arriving at the city at the northwest, which is why Smithfield, London's very famous meat market, was located up there.
And here is another very famous "Utopian" vision, that of Ebenezer Howard, "The Garden City."
In fact, Martin Luther King's most famous line was at Stage Three.
In 2012, a famous American children's hospital initially denied Amelia the right to a lifesaving kidney transplant because, according to their form, as it said, she was "mentally retarded."
It wasn't, in fact, revolutionary politics for which Galois was famous.
The famous Sufi master Rumi, who is very well known to most of you, has a story in which he talks of a man who goes to the house of a friend, and he knocks on the door, and a voice answers, "Who's there?" "It's me," or, more grammatically correctly, "It is I," as we might say in English.
Now, I want to tell a story, which is a very famous story in the Indian and Buddhist tradition, of the great Saint Asanga who was a contemporary of Augustine in the West and was sort of like the Buddhist Augustine.
A famous one, it's called the "Sevenfold Causal Method of Developing Compassion."
She was the wife of an even more famous Brahmin.
Here is a famous one.
He was supposed to be the toughest interview that anybody would ever do because he was famous for being silent, for never ever saying anything except maybe a word or two.
He says, "God, I want you to make me famous."
He said, "I want you to make me famous.
I want you to make me famous, I want you to give me influence."
Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun.
Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: "Cogito ergo sum."
We learn, maybe not the famous TED audience, but so many other people learn, that the unknown, the doubts, the question marks are dangerous.
It's a place that's famous to a lot of you who know about the bandits, the dacoits who used to work up there.
He was also famous for having no body.
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