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"There is no sin but ignorance."

Christopher Marlowe
(02/06/1564 – 05/30/1593)
English writer ("Tamburlaine")
(image from Bridgeman Art Library)

"Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule
that every poet is a fool:
but you yourself may serve to show it
that every fool is not a poet."

Alexander Pope
(05/21/1688 – 05/30/1744)
English writer ("The Dunciad")

"This is no time for making new enemies."

Voltaire
(11/21/1694 – 05/30/1778)
French philosopher ("Candide") , when asked on his deathbed to renounce Satan

"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."

Mikhail Bakunin
(05/30/1814 – 07/01/1876)
Russian anarchist ("Statism and Anarchy")

"Credit you give yourself is not worth having."

Irving Thalberg
(05/30/1899 – 09/14/1936)
US film director ("Mutiny on the Bounty") , on not allowing his name to appear in credits
(was married to Norma Shearer [shown])

"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."

Cornelia Otis Skinner
(05/30/1899 – 07/09/1979)
US actor, writer ("Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals")

"Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!"

Countee Cullen
(05/30/1903 – 01/09/1946)
US writer ("The Black Christ")

"Today was tomorrow yesterday, so don't inhale."

Mel Blanc
(05/30/1908 – 07/10/1989)
US voice artist ("Bugs Bunny")

"Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination."

Benny Goodman
(05/30/1909 – 06/13/1986)
US clarinetist, bandleader ("Sing, Sing, Sing")

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."

Wilbur Wright
(04/16/1867 – 05/30/1912)
US inventor
(brother of Orville)

"Have just read obituary in the Times. Kindly adjust pay to suit." *

George Ernest Morrison
(02/04/1862 – 05/30/1920)
Australian adventurer , on the erroneus report of his death

"No bad man can be a good poet."

Boris Pasternak
(02/10/1890 – 05/30/1960)
Russian writer ("Doctor Zhivago")

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow."

Leo Szilard
(02/11/1898 – 05/30/1964)
Hungarian-US scientist ("The Voice of the Dolphins") , on the making of the atomic bomb

"I think that if Pat Buchanan became president we would be in camps before the month was out. I don't doubt that. There is a mostly male, predominantly white, ruling elite in this country and all of the presidental candidates are chosen from their number. They're all beholden to wealth and property and corporate interest; that's just how you get elected in this country. There are no welfare mothers or homeless people or construction workers or auto workers running for president, it's all millionaries and billionaires and the fact that 1% of the population controls more than a third of all the wealth and 40 million live in total poverty... And everybody else is fighting over the leftovers and are on each other's throats, and that's reflected everytime we have an election. Most people are just disregarded."

Tom Morello
(05/30/1964 – )
US singer, guitarist, activist (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave) ("Killing In the Name")
(also see Zack de la Rocha)

"Silence is refreshment for the soul."

Wynonna Judd
(05/30/1964 – )
US singer ("Only Love")
(daughter of Naomi Judd, half-sister of Ashley Judd)

"I have won several prizes as the world's slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness."

Paul Desmond
(11/25/1924 – 05/30/1977)
US saxophonist, composer ("Emily")

"In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded."

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
(07/19/1921 – 05/30/2011)
US medical physicist

"To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death."

Leon Redbone
(08/26/1949 – 05/30/2019)
Cypriot musician ("Walking Stick")

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