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"Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging."
Ernest Dimnet
(07/09/1866
12/08/1954)
French priest
"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!")
"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."
Donald Rumsfeld
(07/09/1932
)
US executive, politico
"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
"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
"Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst."
Pamela Adlon
(07/09/1966
)
US actor
"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
("Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals")
"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
Eric Sevareid
(11/26/1912
07/09/1992)
US telejournalist
"There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers."
Melvin Belli
(07/29/1907
07/09/1996)
US attorney
"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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