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"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
Edgar Degas
(07/19/1834 09/26/1917)
French painter
"I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own."
Margaret Fuller
(05/23/1810 07/19/1850)
US writer
, great-aunt of Bucky
"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
(07/19/1921 )
US medical physicist
"You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."
George McGovern
(07/19/1922 )
US senator (SD) and presidential candidate
"I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films."
Campbell Scott
(07/19/1961 )
US actor
(son of George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst
"I'm a stand-up comic who hates his own guts."
Jim Norton
(07/19/1968 )
US comic
"If those absolutely important things are ignored, of how we speciated, how we adapted to the planet, then we're going to lose something precious. There won't be anywhere to go and no place to come home to."
Alan Lomax
(01/31/1915 07/19/2002)
US musicologist
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