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"He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise."
Christopher Columbus
(08/26/1451 05/20/1506)
Italian explorer
"The general application of the transistor in radio and television is far in the future."
Dr. Lee deForest
(08/26/1873 06/30/1961)
US inventor
, in 1952
"Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation."
John Buchan
(08/26/1875 02/11/1940)
Scottish writer
"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."
Christopher Isherwood
(08/26/1904 01/04/1986)
English writer
"'Good morning' is a contradiction of terms."
Jim Davis
(08/26/1909 04/26/1981)
US actor
(also see Jim Davis the "Garfield" cartoonist)
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James
(01/11/1842 08/26/1910)
US writer, psychologist
"Generals who can write always make me nervous."
Ben Bradlee
(08/26/1921 )
US newsman (Washington Post)
"My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me."
Lon Chaney
(04/01/1883 08/26/1930)
US actor
"The plural of anecdote is data."
Ben Wattenberg
(08/26/1933 )
US columnist, commentator
"It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods."
Geraldine Ferraro
(08/26/1935 )
US Rep (NY); 1984 Vice Presidential Candidate
"Gentlemen prefer bonds."
Andrew Mellon
(03/24/1855 08/26/1937)
US lawyer, judge, banker, Secretary of Treasury
"Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, stronger is music than death."
Franz Werfel
(09/10/1890 08/26/1945)
German writer
(was married to Alma Schindler)
"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."
Ralph Vaughan Williams
(10/12/1872 08/26/1958)
English composer
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(11/03/1879 08/26/1962)
Canadian explorer
"Any girl would go insane by the end of that. But it was at the point where I actually found myself liking 'Happy Gilmore' that I recognized the total decline of my intelligence and emotional well-being."
Shirley Manson
(08/26/1966 )
Scottish singer (Garbage)
, on touring with 20 guys in a bus
"I don't even get an allowance."
Macaulay Culkin
(08/26/1980 )
US actor
, at age 10
"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap."
Irving Stone
(07/14/1903 08/26/1989)
US writer
, on William Jennings Bryan
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