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"Don't talk to me of Gauguin. I'd like to wring the fellow's neck."
Paul Cezanne
(01/19/1839 10/22/1906)
French painter
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Doris Lessing
(10/22/1919 )
Persia-born writer
"There are three side effects of acid. Enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third."
Dr. Timothy Leary
(10/22/1920 05/31/1996)
US LSD guru
"My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea."
Lord Edward Carson
(02/09/1854 10/22/1935)
Irish statesman
"It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy."
George Lorimer
(10/06/1867 10/22/1937)
US editor (Saturday Evening Post)
"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
Pablo Casals
(12/29/1876 10/22/1973)
Spanish cellist
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
(04/14/1889 10/22/1975)
English historian
"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893 10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
"Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds."
Rollo May
(04/21/1909 10/22/1994)
US psychologist
"No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two extra years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare."
Kingsley Amis
(04/16/1922 10/22/1995)
English writer
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