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"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie
(11/07/1867
07/04/1934)
French scientist
"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
Leon Trotsky
(11/07/1879
08/21/1940)
Russian revolutionary
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
Konrad Lorenz
(11/07/1903
02/27/1989)
Austrian zoologist
"I wish I'd watched less TV."
Billy Graham
(11/07/1918
02/21/2018)
US evangelist
, I wish he'd been on less TV
"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another."
Joan Sutherland
(11/07/1926
10/10/2010)
US singer
"Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it."
Joni Mitchell
(11/07/1943
)
Canadian singer
(relationships with Graham Nash,
Sam Shepard)
"My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.'"
Judy Tenuta
(11/07/1956
)
US accordion-wielding comic
"I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it."
Janet Flanner
(03/13/1892
11/07/1978)
US journalist
"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."
Steve McQueen
(03/24/1930
11/07/1980)
US actor
(mas married to Ali MacGraw)
"Life oscillates between Voltaire and Rousseau, Confucius and Lao-Tze, Socrates and Christ. After every idea has had its day with us and we have fought for it not wisely or too well, we in our turn shall tire of the battle, and pass on to the young our thinning fasicle of ideals. Then we shall take to the woods with Jacques, Jean-Jacques, and Lao-Tze; we shall make friends of the animals, and discourse more contentedly than Machiavelli with simple peasant minds; we shall leave the world to stew in its own deviltry, and shall take no further thought of its reform." (whew! -s)
Will Durant
(11/05/1885 11/07/1981)
US historian
(died near his birthday;
was married to Ariel Durant)
"Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique."
Lawrence Durrell
(02/27/1912
11/07/1990)
India-born English writer
"I was on the bus, and the bus was crowded, and I pushed and shoved. And I was standing beside a white fella, about six foot three, 250 pounds, broad shoulders. He looked down at me and said, "Are you a member of the NAACP?" And I said no. He said, "Do you belong to CORE?" I said no. He said, "Are you a follower of Martin Luther King?" I said no. He said, "Well, do you believe in Black Power?" I said I don't believe in none of that stuff. He said, "Then get off my damn foot!"
Slappy White
(09/27/1921
11/07/1995)
US comic
"You know, people say 'Wait and go to heaven.' Well, if heaven's like they claim it is, I don't want to go. I'd get bored."
Howard Keel
(04/13/1919
11/07/2004)
US actor
"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
Joe Frazier
(01/12/1944
11/07/2011)
US boxer
"Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters."
Janet Reno
(07/21/1938 11/07/2016)
US Secretary of State
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
Leonard Cohen
(09/21/1934
11/07/2016)
Canadian writer
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