- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(10/24/1632 – 08/30/1723)
Dutch biologist
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"A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished."
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| "In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education." |  |
"No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals."
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"It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts."
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| "These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: 'I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas." |  |
| "So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience." |  |
"In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not."
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"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right."
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| "Images split the truth in fractions" |
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| "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
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"An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing."
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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
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| Died 10/23 | Died 10/24 | Died 10/25 | Death Dates |