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When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
Ernst Mach
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"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories."
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When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. — Ernst Mach

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Ernst Mach was a Physicist from Kingdom of Bohemia (1838–1916).

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This quote is attributed to Ernst Mach, a Physicist from Kingdom of Bohemia.
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Ernst Mach lived from 1838 – 1916.