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"Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said, no."
John Bunyan
(11/28/1628
08/31/1688)
English writer, minister
(Apology, "The Pilgrim's Progress")
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
Dr. Maria Montessori
(08/31/1870
05/06/1952)
Italian educator
"God granted me the privilege of knowing the brilliant works of our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if I was allowed to assist these knights for a while, then my existence is justified and blessed!"
Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
(08/31/1879
12/11/1964)
Austrian writer
(was married to Gustav Mahler,
Walter Gropius, and
Franz Werfel;
had affairs with Oskar Kokoschka,
Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gerhart Hauptman, Alban Berg,
Enrico Caruso, Alexander Zemlinksy, Johannes Hollnsteiner, among others)
"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing isI could be just as proud for half the money."
Arthur Godfrey
(08/31/1903
03/16/1983)
US actor
"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."
Buddy Hackett
(08/31/1924
06/30/2003)
US comic
"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."
Eldridge Cleaver
(08/31/1935
05/01/1998)
US activist
("Soul on Ice")
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
Van Morrison
(08/31/1945
)
Irish-US singer
"I am driven, even though I don't drive."
Debbie Gibson
(08/31/1970
)
US singer
"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
John Ford
(02/01/1894
08/31/1973)
US filmmaker
("The Searchers")
"In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture."
Henry Moore
(07/30/1898
08/31/1986)
English sculptor
"If, as some of them say, we were exciting fans to the point of violence then surely the law would have been on to us. No performer wants that and nothing of the kind was ever intended. We're a new act with a new way of presenting our material. Sure it's different from, for instance, the Bachelors, just as Presley was never expected to present his numbers in the style of Sinatra."
Carl Wayne
(08/18/1943
08/31/2004)
English singer (the Move)
"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed."
Sir David Frost
(04/07/1939
08/31/2013)
English TV personality
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