- William Shakespeare
(04/23/1564 – 04/23/1616)
English writer (died on his birthday, allegedly)
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"I like the noise of democracy."
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"The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith."
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"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."
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| "The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?" |  |
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
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"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
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"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
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| "I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own." |
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
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"Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
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| "I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire." |  |
"There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure."
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"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence."
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| "Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too." |  |
"Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."
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"We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know they can come and talk to us and pour beer over us, buy us a drink and spit at us."
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"Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean."
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| Died 04/22 | Died 04/23 | Died 04/24 | Death Dates |