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"Linnea: A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief spacefrom Linnaeus who resembles it."
Carl Linnaeus
(05/23/1707
01/10/1778)
Swedish botanist, zoologist
("Systema Naturae")
"Holland lies so low they're only saved by being dammed."
Thomas Hood
(05/23/1799
05/03/1845)
English writer
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
Margaret Fuller
(05/23/1810
07/19/1850)
US writer
(great-aunt of Bucky)
"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts.' probably lost."
Mary Ashton Livermore
(12/19/1820
05/23/1905)
US social reformer
"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."
Henrik Ibsen
(03/20/1828
05/23/1906)
Norwegian writer
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
Gerald Holton
(05/23/1922
)
US physicist
"It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano."
Joan Collins
(05/23/1933
)
English actor
(sister of Jackie)
"In our judgement of homosexualitya symptom of degeneracy which could destroy our racewe must return to the guiding Nordic principle: extermination of the degenerates."
Heinrich Himmler
(10/07/1900
05/23/1945)
German Nazi, Gestapo head
"Sculpture is as free as the mind; as complex as life."
David Smith
(03/09/1906
05/23/1965)
US sculptor
"You can't fix it. You can't make it go away. I don't know what you're going to do about it, but I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just going to walk away from it. Maybe a small part of it will die if I'm not around feeding it anymore."
Lew Welch
(08/16/1926
05/23/1971)
US writer
"Stop looking at my teeth and look at my breasts."
Jewel
(05/23/1974
)
US singer
, to fans at a 2004 concert
"Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move."
Moms Mabley
(03/19/1894
05/23/1975)
US comedienne
"A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass roots and AstroTurf."
Lloyd Bentsen
(02/11/1921
05/23/2006)
US Representative (TX)
"I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy."
Roger Moore
(10/14/1927
05/23/2017)
English actor
, on James Bond
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