Ever: 

Impossible to judge - but off the top of my head I would say Albert Einstein.

 

Living:

In my opinion - Nelson Mandela.

 

but my personal favourite would be Didier Drogba.

The whole quote means, it is the person who tries and succeeds/fails who is worth something - not the person who does not try and only criticises the efforts of others who are not afraid to fail. Now to answer your question - the doer of deeds simply means - someone who does things A deed in this context means: an action that is performed intentionally or consciously. (Nb: you question should read - What is the true meaning of this quote? - or a better way to say it would be - what does this quote mean?) Hope this helps :)

Girls that do many things which are stereo typically or generally considered boys activities. For example: Jennifer played football, she liked to wrestle and was always getting dirty. She was considered a bit of a tomboy.

The main task of the semicolon is to mark a break that is stronger than a comma but not as final as a full stop. - This is a good definition I found (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/semicolon). Simple examples: (Taken from: http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/semicolonterm.htm) - "A banana tree isn't a tree at all; it's the world's largest herb." - "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." - "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Examples: (Taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv55.shtml). Where the meaning is closely connected, we can use semi-colons to link two ideas together as an alternative to full stops: 'Some people like to get up early in the morning and get going; others are unable to do anything before nine or ten o’ clock.' Like commas, semi-colons are also used to separate items on a list and are preferred to commas when the items are more grammatically complex: 'You can use our flat at the seaside as long as you observe the following: you do not play loud music late at night; you remember to lock up whenever you leave; you clean up every morning before you go out; you replace any items that you break or damage.' Finally... "Unlike many of the other punctuation marks, there is no occasion on which the semicolon cannot be replaced by another form of punctuation or sentence construction, and its use appears to be gradually declining." (Martin H. Manser, Good Word Guide, 7th ed. A & C Black, 2008 Probably a little bit more than you asked for, but I hope ti answers all your questions about it.

If we re-write the paragraph it becomes clearer: The teachers of these subjects did not appeal to my curious 'and' active mind. The result was that I did not really work at them and so 'remembered' only what stuck from repetition the barest rudiments of a school education. - Here stuck means 'remembered' - only through repetition did any of the things taught 'stick to' or 'stay in' the persons head/brain/memory.