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"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
Martin Van Buren
(12/05/1782
07/24/1862)
US President (8),
VP (8)
"While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her silver sound,
Is wont with spede to send redresse."
Alexandre Dumas Père
(07/24/1802
12/05/1870)
French writer
(father of Alexandre Dumas Fils)
"Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached."
Werner Karl Heisenberg
(12/05/1901
02/01/1976)
German physicist
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
Walt Disney
(12/05/1901
12/15/1966)
US filmmaker
"All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
Strom Thurmond
(12/05/1902
06/26/2003)
US senator (SC), bigot, and hypocrite
, in 1948
"The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it."
Hans Richter
(04/04/1843
12/05/1916)
Hungarian conductor
"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet
(11/14/1840
12/05/1926)
French painter
(Manet is here)
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
Calvin Trillin
(12/05/1935
)
US writer
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
Margaret Cho
(12/05/1968
)
US-Korean comic
"Let's face it, sports writers, we're not hanging around with brain surgeons."
Jimmy Cannon
(04/10/1909
12/05/1973)
US sports writer
"I try to avoid the sweet-ass roles."
Nick Stahl
(12/05/1979
)
US actor
"I'm just an actor, that's nothing special."
Frankie Muniz
(12/05/1985
)
US actor
"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."
Colin Henry Wilson
(06/26/1931
12/05/2013)
English writer
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
Nelson Mandela
(07/18/1918
12/05/2013)
African statesman
"One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch."
Peter Alliss
(02/28/1931
12/05/2020)
English golfer
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