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"I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers."
Jonathan Swift
(11/30/1667
10/19/1745)
English writer
"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
Leigh Hunt
(10/19/1784
08/28/1859)
English writer
"It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to."
Fannie Hurst
(10/19/1885
02/23/1968)
US writer
"If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti-racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality."
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
(10/19/1936 )
US educator
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
Ernest Rutherford
(08/30/1871
10/19/1937)
New Zealand physicist
"I lead a pretty boring life. I once met an editor from the National Enquirer who said to me, almost apologetically, 'I'm sorry, but we're really not interested in you.' I'm afraid that's true."
John Lithgow
(10/19/1945
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US actor
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."
Margaret Caroline Anderson
(11/24/1886
10/19/1973)
US writer
"I have the face of a vulture and the voice of a crow. If you threw a rock at me, you could kill two birds with one stone."
Martha Raye
(08/27/1916
10/19/1994)
US actor
"The day I met [Ornette Coleman], it was about 90 degrees and he had on an overcoat. I was scared of him."
Don Cherry
(11/18/1936
10/19/1995)
US trumpeter
"A bag of tattooed bones in a sequined slingshot."
Mr. Blackwell
(08/29/1922
10/19/2008)
US critic
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