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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
Anne Bradstreet
(03/20/1612
09/16/1672)
English-US writer
"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom."
Andrew Bonar Law
(09/16/1858
10/30/1923)
British PM (37)
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
Jean Arp
(09/16/1886
06/07/1966)
French artist
"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893
10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(09/16/1919
01/12/1990)
Canadian pop psychologist, writer
"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow."
B. B. King
(09/16/1925
05/14/2015)
US blues guitarist, singer
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
Robert H. Schuller
(09/16/1926
04/02/2015)
US televangelist
"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thoughtI want to sell out!"
Jennifer Tilly
(09/16/1958
)
US actor
(sister of Meg Tilly)
"I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys."
Molly Shannon
(09/16/1964
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."
Maria Callas
(12/02/1923
09/16/1977)
US diva (in the original sense of the word)
"I was a mod prince. It was the very beginnings of sequin rock and I had lots of clothes because my mother made them."
Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947
09/16/1977)
English singer
"The curious fascination in this job is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could beand that's so tempting."
Millicent Fenwick
(02/25/1910
09/16/1992)
US fashion editor, representative (NJ), diplomat
"The space age was upon us. Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe we would find people up there. I still wonder if we will. People (heard the song) and imagined some kind of beings."
Sheb Wooley
(04/10/1921
09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter
, on his song, "Flying Purple People Eater"
"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
Edward Albee
(03/12/1928
09/16/2016)
US playwright
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