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"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."

Fanny Burney
(06/13/1752 – 01/06/1840)
English writer ("Evelina")

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."

Carl Sandburg
(01/06/1878 – 07/22/1967)
US writer ("Chicago Poems")
(uncle of Mary Steichen Calderone)

"A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice."

Sam Rayburn
(01/06/1882 – 11/16/1961)
US Rep (TX) , on Lyndon Baines Johnson
(same dates as Alan Watts)

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

Kahlil Gibran
(01/06/1883 – 04/10/1931)
Lebanese philosopher poet ("The Prophet")

"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."

Joey Adams
(01/06/1911 – 12/02/1999)
US comic, actor ("Rate Your Mate")

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

Danny Thomas
(01/06/1912 – 02/06/1991)
US actor ("Make Room for Daddy")
(father of Marlo Thomas)

"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."

Loretta Young
(01/06/1913 – 08/12/2000)
US actor ("The Farmer's Daughter")

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Alan Watts
(01/06/1915 – 11/16/1973)
English writer ("The Way of Zen")
(same dates as Sam Rayburn)

"McKinley shows all the backbone of a chocolate eclair."

Theodore Roosevelt
(10/27/1858 – 01/06/1919)
US President (26), Vice President (25) ("The Naval War of 1812")
(father of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, fifth cousin of Franklin Roosevelt)

"I like drums, really, if they're under control."

Earl Scruggs
(01/06/1924 – 03/28/2012)
US bluegrass great ("Foggy Mountain Breakdown")

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow
(01/06/1931 – 07/21/2015)
US writer ("Ragtime")

"We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war, or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference."

Ida Tarbell
(11/05/1857 – 01/06/1944)
US journalist ("The History of the Standard Oil Company")

"Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with."

Rowan Atkinson
(01/06/1955 – )
English actor ("Dirty Names") , on his character "Mr. Bean"

"I am a babe for a living."

Gabrielle Reece
(01/06/1970 – )
US professional volleyball player and supermodel ("My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life")

"I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating."

Kate McKinnon
(01/06/1984 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)

"My leg, make it more beautiful."

Rudolf Nureyev
(03/17/1938 – 01/06/1993)
Russian dancer, choreographer ("Sleeping Beauty/Gayne")

"Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit."

Dizzy Gillespie
(10/21/1917 – 01/06/1993)
US trumpeter ("A Night In Tunisia") , on Charlie Parker

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