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"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."

Konrad Adenauer
(01/05/1876 – 04/19/1967)
Chancellor, German Republic

"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

George Washington Carver
(??/??/1864 – 01/05/1943)
US agricultural chemist

"Maria Montez has a dual personality: one for Hollywood and another as a mother and a wife... that woman is full of simplicity, culture and romance with an overflowing humanity."

Jean-Pierre Aumont
(01/05/1911 – 01/30/2001)
French actor (was married to Maria Montez; father with her of Tina Aumont)

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."

Jane Wyman
(01/05/1917 – 09/10/2007)
US actor (was married to Ronald Reagan; mother with him of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan)

"What was once thought can never be unthought."

Friedrich Durrenmatt
(01/05/1921 – 12/14/1990)
Swiss writer
("The Visit")

"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns."

Walter F. Mondale
(01/05/1928 – )
US VP (40) , withdrawing from 1976 presidential election

"Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity."

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
(01/05/1928 – 04/04/1979)
Pakistani statesman

"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."

Alvin Ailey
(01/05/1931 – 12/01/1989)
US dancer, choreographer

"I'm better than Olivier."

Robert Duvall
(01/05/1931 – )
US actor

"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."

Calvin Coolidge
(07/04/1872 – 01/05/1933)
US President (30), VP (29)

"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside."

Michael O'Donoghue
(01/05/1940 – 11/08/1994)
US writer, actor (SNL)

"I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills."

Diane Keaton
(01/05/1946 – )
US actor (LTR with Woody Allen)

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Rogers Hornsby
(04/27/1896 – 01/05/1963)
US baseball player

"Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best."

Marilyn Manson
(01/05/1969 – )
US singer (was married to Dita Von Teese; was engaged to Rose McGowan, Evan Rachel Wood)

"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy."

Max Born
(12/11/1882 – 01/05/1970)
German physicist

"They’re singing your praises while stealing your phrases."

Charles Mingus
(04/22/1922 – 01/05/1979)
US bassist, composer

"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world."

Margaret Laurence
(07/18/1926 – 01/05/1987)
Canadian writer
("The Stone Angel")

"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job."

"Tip" O’Neill
(12/09/1912 – 01/05/1994)
US house speaker , to Vice President Walter Mondale

"Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon."

Lincoln Kirstein
(05/04/1907 – 01/05/1996)
US impresario

"It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like a fire, or an earthquake, or an accident."

Sonny Bono
(02/16/1935 – 01/05/1998)
US singer, congressman (was married to Cher)

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at 7:30 in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

Jean Kerr
(07/10/1922 – 01/05/2003)
US writer, humorist
("Please Don't Eat the Daisies")

"Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. Okay, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon."

Jerry Coleman
(09/14/1924 – 01/05/2014)
US sportscaster

"For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin."

Pierre Boulez
(03/26/1925 – 01/05/2016)
French composer, conductor, writer

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