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"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
Socrates
(06/04/0470 05/07/0399 BC)
Greek philosopher and scholar
"I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
David Hume
(05/07/1711 08/25/1776)
Scottish philosopher
"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(05/07/1840 11/06/1893)
Russian composer
"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."
Henry Peter Brougham
(12/19/1778 05/07/1868)
English politician
"Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts."
Archibald MacLeish
(05/07/1892 04/20/1982)
US writer
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 05/07/1915)
US writer
"If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing."
Eva Peron
(05/07/1919 07/26/1952)
Argentine royalty
"There's a big difference between confidence and conceit."
John Unitas
(05/07/1933 09/11/2002)
US football quarterback
"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."
Sir James George Frazer
(01/01/1854 05/07/1941)
Scottish writer
"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody."
Stanislaw Lec
(03/06/1906 05/07/1966)
Polish writer
(Note: a different person from Stanislaw Lem)
"He's the kind of guy that would be really sweet to a girl and bring her flowers, but still take a pee in the alley."
Traci Lords
(05/07/1968 )
US actor
, on pal Johnny Depp
"Mike Andrews' limits are limitless."
Danny Ozark
(11/24/1923 05/07/2009)
US baseball coach
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