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"Where there's music, there can be no evil."

Miguel de Cervantes
(09/29/1547 – 04/23/1616)
Spanish writer (never heard Kenny G.)

"I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me."

Horatio Nelson
(09/29/1758 – 10/21/1805)
English naval commander

"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say."

Elizabeth Gaskell
(09/29/1810 – 11/12/1865)
English writer

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

Martin Heidegger
(09/29/1889 – 05/26/1976)
German philosopher (LTR with Hannah Arendt)

"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."

Enrico Fermi
(09/29/1901 – 11/29/1954)
Italian physicist

"Actors like him are good but on the whole I do not enjoy actors who seek to commune with their armpits, so to speak."

Greer Garson
(09/29/1903 – 04/06/1996)
US actor , on Marlon Brando

"These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell."

Rebecca Harding Davis
(06/24/1831 – 09/29/1910)
US writer

"You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it."

"Bum" Phillips
(09/29/1923 – )
US football coach

"If I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano."

Jerry Lee Lewis
(09/29/1935 – )
US singer, pianist, Killer

"Mel Brooks is sensual with me. He treats me like an uncle. A dirty uncle."

Madeline Kahn
(09/29/1942 – 12/03/1999)
US actor

"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."

Lech Walesa
(09/29/1943 – )
Polish leader

"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But since there's no real market for masturbation, I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities."

Les Claypool
(09/29/1963 – )
US bassist (Primus)

"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."

Carson McCullers
(02/19/1917 – 09/29/1967)
US writer

"It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful."

W. H. Auden
(02/21/1907 – 09/29/1973)
English-American writer

"A lot of people my age are dead at the present time."

Casey Stengel
(07/30/1891 – 09/29/1975)
US baseball great

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