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"Garden as though you will live forever."
William Kent
(??/??/1685
04/12/1748)
English gardener
"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
Clara Barton
(12/25/1821
04/12/1912)
US humanitarian, Red Cross founder
"What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic."
Georges Franju
(04/12/1912
11/05/1987)
French filmmaker
"I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single."
Tiny Tim
(04/12/1932
11/30/1996)
US singer
"My mother used to say, Delia, if S-E-X ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it."
Alan Ayckbourn
(04/12/1939
)
English writer
"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
(04/12/1947
10/01/2013)
US writer
"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
David Letterman
(04/12/1947
)
US comic
"Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars."
Tama Janowitz
(04/12/1957
)
US writer
"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."
Josephine Baker
(06/03/1906
04/12/1975)
US entertainer
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Alan Paton
(01/11/1903
04/12/1988)
S. African writer
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
Abbie Hoffman
(11/30/1936
04/12/1989)
US writer, '60s revolutionary
"You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you done slid."
Sugar Ray Robinson
(05/03/1921
04/12/1989)
US boxer
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