Jim Clark
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"James "Jim"" "Clark, Jr" Officer of the Order of the British Empire/OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a Formula One drivers from the United Kingdom/British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions/World Championships, in 1963 and 1965.

Clark was a versatile driver who competed in Sports car racing/sports cars, Touring car racing/touring cars and in the Indianapolis 500, which he won in 1965. He was particularly associated with the Team Lotus/Lotus marque.

He was killed in a Formula Two motor racing accident in Hockenheimring/Hockenheim, Germany in 1968. At the time of his death, he had won more Grand Prix races (25) and achieved more Grand Prix pole positions (33) than any other driver. In 2009, The Times placed Clark at the top of a list of the greatest-ever Formula One drivers.

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I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

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If he was competent and honest, then he assumed it would allow the system to work, and he always worked on the assumption that the people on the other side operated in the same way.

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No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

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We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.

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Saw himself as part of the system.

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He bought it for me for Christmas, ... That's my caboose.

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(Deep snapping) is so overlooked by the average fan, but you've got to have it. If you can't punt the ball and you lose field position, you're dead in the water. We're lucky to have Aaron King. He's averaging anywhere from .6 to .68, right around there, on his snaps, so that gives us a little more time to get the ball off.

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In terms of his trying to solve crimes, he was very thorough, very bright, very dedicated to doing his job, and he went about it very professionally. In terms of dealing with him as an adversary, Bill was always completely honest, completely candid.

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Our policy says if a student is expelled from another district, we do not enroll them, ... The student was eligible to enroll here.

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