Jetée

Thanks unclephil and Lady Luck, you both flatter me.

It is much harder than I previously thought to think of a specific person, fictional or not, so ... still pondering. I, jeez, whatever, may wing it. I'll keep looking up until the first guess, then plant feet, and we'll start running.

I have an idea now.

Who am I?

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi