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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." Robert Southey (08/12/1774 – 03/21/1843) English writer

"Common sense, a sense of humor, more common sense." Madame Helene Petrovna Blavatsky (08/12/1831 – 05/08/1891) Russian writer, mystic, on requirements for the study of Theosophy

"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can." Edith Hamilton (08/12/1867 – 05/31/1963) US educator

"What do you want me to do? Stop shooting now and release it as The Five Commandments?" Cecil B. de Mille (08/12/1881 – 01/21/1959) US director (uncle of Agnes de Mille), running over budget on the filming of "The Ten Commandments"

"I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't." Buck Owens (08/12/1929 – 03/25/2006) US musician

"I've got huge admiration for prose writers because I just know that I'd be no good at it. I don't think I'd try to write a novel or a screenplay or be a poet even. When you're peddling ditties, it's a different thing." Mark Knopfler (08/12/1949 – ) English guitarist (Dire Straits)

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