- A. E. Housman
(03/26/1849 – 04/30/1936)
English scholar
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"My inclination to go by Air Express is confirmed by the crash they had yesterday, which will make them more careful in the immediate future."
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| "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." |  |
| "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." |
"What is to give light must endure burning."
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| "I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by a bat." |  |
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."
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| "They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up—and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me." |  |
| "I've never really verbalized this before, and that's the honest truth, but I've always seen Spock as a spiritual figure. He's a searcher for values, for ethics, for insight." |  |
| "You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." |  |
"Hair has always been important."
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"I would think nothing of tipping over a table with a whole long spread on it just because there was turkey roll on the table and I had explicitly said, 'No turkey roll.'"
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"Sometimes between takes, I'll spin to disorient myself."
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"One day I wish that all the people of the world, all the males, females, blacks, whites, purples, whatever, and all of the adults and children would all come together and get it on."
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"When in doubt, faint."
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| Born 03/25 | Born 03/26 | Born 03/27 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 03/25 | Died 03/26 | Died 03/27 | Death Dates |