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"The Americans are the first people whom heaven has favoured with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing forms of government under which they should live."
John Jay
(12/23/1745
05/17/1829)
US politician, founding father, Supreme Court justice
"Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years."
Thomas Malthus
(02/13/1766
12/23/1834)
English economist
(image courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library)
"The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better."
Harriet Monroe
(12/23/1860
09/26/1936)
US poet
"O'er the rugged mountain's brow,
Clara threw the twins she nursed
and remarked, 'I wonder now
which will reach the bottom first?'"
Harry Graham
(12/23/1874
10/30/1936)
English writer
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
Yousuf Karsh
(12/23/1908
07/13/2002)
Armenian-Turkish-Canadian photographer
"It is curious how incest, impotence, nymphomania, religious mania, and real estate speculation can be so dull."
Richard Findlater
(12/23/1908
??/??/1985)
English writer
, on one of Lillian Hellman's books
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
Harry Shearer
(12/23/1943
)
US actor, musician (SNL;
"Derek Smalls" in Spinal Tap;
many characters on The Simpsons)
"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
Edward F. Halifax
(04/16/1881
12/23/1959)
English statesman
"I think celebrities suck."
Eddie Vedder
(12/23/1964
)
US singer (Pearl Jam)
"The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy."
Billy Barty
(10/25/1924
12/23/2000)
US actor
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Oscar Peterson
(08/15/1925
12/23/2007)
Canadian pianist, composer
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