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"They are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war."
Stanley Baldwin
(08/03/1867
12/14/1947)
British PM (38)
, on Parliament
"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."
Rupert Brooke
(08/03/1887
04/23/1915)
English writer
("The Soldier")
"Learning and sex until rigor mortis."
Maggie Kuhn
(08/03/1905
04/22/1995)
US Gray Panther
"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."
P. D. James
(08/03/1920
11/27/2014)
English writer
(Image from Salon)
"All television is children's television." *
Richard P. Adler
(08/03/1921
06/21/2012)
US? composer, producer?
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad
(12/03/1857
08/03/1924)
Polish-Ukrainian writer
"Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. Happy Valentines Day."
Martha Stewart
(08/03/1941
)
US craft maven
, note to her gardener
"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
Lenny Bruce
(10/13/1925
08/03/1966)
US comic
"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
(08/22/1908
08/03/2004)
French photographer
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your powerhe's free again."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
(12/11/1918
08/03/2008)
Russian writer
"I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!" *
Paul McCracken
(12/29/1915
08/03/2012)
US economist
"And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? First him, and then his memory..."
Shirley Ann Grau
(07/08/1929
08/03/2020)
US writer
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