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"It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe."

Zachary Taylor
(11/24/1784 – 07/09/1850)
US President (12)

"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light."

Dorothy Thompson
(07/09/1893 – 01/30/1961)
US writer
("I Saw Hitler!")

"I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity."

Sir Edward Heath
(07/09/1916 – 07/17/2005)
British Prime Minister (47)

"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

June Jordan
(07/09/1936 – 06/14/2002)
US writer

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

David Hockney
(07/09/1937 – )
English artist

"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more."

Benjamin Cardozo
(05/24/1870 – 07/09/1938)
US Supreme Court justice

"I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution."

Dean R. Koontz
(07/09/1945 – )
US writer , on what gift he'd like to present to another writer, living or dead

"There's three of us in the band, so we split everything straight down the middle."

Mitch Mitchell
(07/09/1946 – 11/12/2008)
English drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

"Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser."

O. J. Simpson
(07/09/1947 – )
US football player, actor, murderer

"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s."

Tom Hanks
(07/09/1956 – )
US actor (married to Rita Wilson; father of Colin Hanks)

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison."

Georges Bataille
(09/10/1897 – 07/09/1962)
French writer

"F890 yeah, man! I'm a rock star girl!"

Courtney Love
(07/09/1964 – )
US singer (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) and recurring train wreck (was married to Kurt Cobain)

"Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst."

Pamela Adlon
(07/09/1966 – )
US actor

"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

Earl Warren
(03/19/1891 – 07/09/1974)
US Supreme Court justice

"We weren't afraid of success, we were afraid of being punished for it."

Jack White
(07/09/1975 – )
US musician (White Stripes) (married to Karen Elson)

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

Loren Eiseley
(09/03/1907 – 07/09/1977)
US writer

"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row."

Alice Paul
(01/11/1885 – 07/09/1977)
US lawyer, suffragist

"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."

Cornelia Otis Skinner
(05/30/1899 – 07/09/1979)
US actor, writer

"The chief cause of problems is solutions."

Eric Sevareid
(11/26/1912 – 07/09/1992)
US telejournalist

"When you lose your curiosity, you're dead. I don't care if you live to be 117. You're dead."

Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925 – 07/09/2002)
US actor

"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes."

H. Ross Perot
(06/27/1930 – 07/09/2019)
US gazillionaire, presidential contender

"I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood."

Rip Torn
(02/06/1931 – 07/09/2019)
US actor

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