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"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
Moses ben Maimon
(03/30/1135
12/13/1204)
Spanish philosopher
"Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(09/18/1709
12/13/1784)
English writer, lexicographer
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
(12/13/1797
02/17/1856)
German writer
"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you."
Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835
01/23/1893)
US clergyman
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."
Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(12/13/1856
01/06/1943)
US educator, lawyer
(grandfather of Amy Lowell)
("What a University President has Learned")
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Emily Carr
(12/13/1871
03/02/1945)
Canadian artist, writer
"A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately."
Eleanor Robson Belmont
(12/13/1879
10/24/1979)
English-US actor, writer
"Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
Ross MacDonald
(12/13/1915
07/11/1983)
US writer
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
George P. Shultz
(12/13/1920
)
US Secretary of State (60)
"The press deserves nothing but lies."
Tom Verlaine
(12/13/1949
)
US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Television)
"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive codependent."
Berton Averre
(12/13/1953
)
US singer (the Knack)
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail."
Steve Buscemi
(12/13/1957
)
US actor, fireman
"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
"Grandma" Moses
(09/07/1860
12/13/1961)
US artist
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
L. P. Hartley
(12/30/1895
12/13/1972)
English writer
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
Mary Renault
(09/04/1905
12/13/1983)
English writer
"I've always strived to be successful, not famous."
Taylor Swift
(12/13/1989
)
US singer
"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."
Russell Hoban
(02/04/1925
12/13/2011)
US writer
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