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"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
Marechal Ferdinand Foch
(10/02/1851
03/20/1929)
French general
("Des Principes de la Guerre (On the Principles of War)")
"They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
pleased that the irrational is rational."
Wallace Stevens
(10/02/1879
08/02/1955)
US writer
"I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people."
Robert Runcie
(10/02/1921
07/11/2000)
English archbishop
"(Travel seems) not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant."
Jan Morris
(10/02/1926
)
Welsh writer
"Rock'n'roll is trying to convince girls to pay money to be near you."
Richard Hell
(10/02/1949
)
US singer, bassist (Television, Voidoids)
"When you're as rich as I am, you don't have to be political."
Sting
(10/02/1951
)
English bassist, singer (Police)
"The 49ers were so badly flattened that they didn't fly back to San Francisco, they were faxed."
Scott Ostler
(10/02/????
)
US columnist
, on a 1993 football playoff loss
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
Marcel Duchamp
(07/28/1887
10/02/1968)
French surrealist
"It's definitely going to change my image. Rock stations are calling me now because I'm naked."
Tiffany
(10/02/1971
)
US singer
, on posing nude for Playboy
"I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people."
Hazel Scott
(06/11/1920
10/02/1981)
Trinidadi-US pianist, singer
"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
Rock Hudson
(11/17/1925
10/02/1985)
US actor
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
Sir Peter B. Medawar
(02/28/1915
10/02/1987)
Brazil-born British zoologist
(same dates as Ernest Renan)
"If you're not getting older, you're dead."
Tom Petty
(10/20/1950
10/02/2017)
US singer, songwriter
"A great catch is like watching girls go bythe last one you see is always the prettiest."
Bob Gibson
(11/09/1935
10/02/2020)
US baseball player
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