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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
("Common Sense")
"My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea."
Lord Edward Carson
(02/09/1854
10/22/1935)
Irish statesman
"Does it really matter what these affectionate people doso 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
("Riptide")
"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
("What's O'Clock")
(granddaughter of Abbott Lawrence Lowell)
"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
("The Crock of Gold")
"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
("In Dahomey")
"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
"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
Bill Veeck
(02/09/1914
01/02/1986)
US baseball player, team owner
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."
James Gibbons Huneker
(01/31/1857
02/09/1921)
US critic
("Painted Veils")
"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
("Borstal Boy")
"Great things are only possible with outrageous requests."
Thea Alexander
(02/09/1936
)
US writer
("2150 AD")
"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
("Tapestry")
"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
Alice Walker
(02/09/1944
)
US writer
("Meridian")
"I hate realityI 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
"There are no illegitimate childrenonly illegitimate parents." *
Leon Rene Yankwich
(09/25/1888
02/09/1975)
US judge (CA)
, decision in Zipkin v. Mozon, June 1928
"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)
"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."
Kurt Herbert Adler
(04/02/1905
02/09/1988)
Austrian opera director
"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)
("The Price of Empire")
"It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what [Miles Davis'] Kind of Blue did."
Chick Corea
(06/12/1941
02/09/2021)
US pianist, composer
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