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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

Thomas Paine
(02/09/1737 – 06/08/1809)
English-US author, founding father, patriot

"But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free."

William Henry Harrison
(02/09/1773 – 04/04/1841)
US President (9) for a month (grandfather of Benjamin Harrison)

"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
(02/09/1863 – 07/08/1933)
English writer

"Does it really matter what these affectionate people do—so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!"

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
(02/09/1865 – 04/09/1940)
English actor

"'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college."

George Ade
(02/09/1866 – 05/16/1944)
US humorist

"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."

Amy Lowell
(02/09/1874 – 05/12/1925)
US writer (granddaughter of Abbott Lawrence Lowell)

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
(11/11/1821 – 02/09/1881)
Russian writer

"If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as wise as he is, otherwise his humor will not be comprehended."

James Stephens
(02/09/1880 – 12/26/1950)
Irish writer

"People are taking it for granted that [the African-American] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency."

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(06/27/1872 – 02/09/1906)
US writer

"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."

Carmen Miranda
(02/09/1909 – 08/05/1955)
Portuguese-Brazilian singer, dancer, actor

"Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something."

Dean Rusk
(02/09/1909 – 12/20/1994)
US secretary of state

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."

Brendan Behan
(02/09/1923 – 03/20/1964)
Irish writer

"I can't believe I'm 60 years old and I'm still writing songs and putting out records. Write from your heart, from your passions. If you think it's a difficult road, you're right, but don't give up."

Carole King
(02/09/1942 – )
US songwriter (quoted in 2002)

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."

Alice Walker
(02/09/1944 – )
US writer

"I can match bottoms with anyone in Hollywood."

Mia Farrow
(02/09/1945 – )
US actor (daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow; was married to Frank Sinatra, André Previn; LTR with Woody Allen)

"I hate reality—I want to be wholly artificial." *

Lolo Ferrari
(02/09/1963 – 03/05/2000)
French porn star

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Sophie Tucker
(01/13/1886 – 02/09/1966)
Russian singer

"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."

Dennis Gabor
(06/05/1900 – 02/09/1979)
Hungarian scientist (invented the hologram)

"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine."

J. William Fulbright
(04/09/1905 – 02/09/1995)
US Senator (Arkansas)

"I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either."

Princess Margaret
(08/21/1930 – 02/09/2002)
English royalty

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