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"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad, and theology makes them sinful."

Martin Luther
(11/10/1483 – 02/18/1546)
German religious reformer
Ninon de l'Enclos "We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."

Ninon de l'Enclos
(11/10/1620 – 10/17/1705)
French courtesan
William Hogarth "I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it."

William Hogarth
(11/10/1697 – 10/26/1764)
English artist
Oliver Goldsmith "There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."

Oliver Goldsmith
(11/10/1728 – 04/04/1774)
Irish writer , on Samuel Johnson
Friedrich von Schiller "Dare to be wrong and to dream."

Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer
"Two mothers-in-law."

Lord Russell of Killowen
(11/10/1832 – 08/10/1900)
Irish-born legislator , on the maximum punishment for bigamy
Henry Jackson van Dyke "Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles."

Henry van Dyke
(11/10/1852 – 04/10/1933)
US writer, Presbyterian
Arthur Rimbaud "Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."

Arthur Rimbaud
(10/20/1854 – 11/10/1891)
French writer
"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."

Ernst Fischer
(11/10/1918 – 01/23/2007)
German chemist, educator
Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr. "If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it."

Richard Burton
(11/10/1925 – 08/05/1984)
English actor (was married to Elizabeth Taylor)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk "Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(05/19/1881 – 11/10/1938)
Turkish military and political leader

"Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?"

David "Screaming Lord" Sutch
(11/10/1940 – 06/16/1999)
English entertainer (shown with Keith Moon) , badgering the Parliament
"Boston's freeway system was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

Bill Bryson
(11/10/1946 – )
US writer
Neil Gaiman "I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it."

Neil Gaiman
(11/10/1960 – )
English writer
Tracy Morgan "You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah."

Tracy Morgan
(11/10/1968 – )
US comic actor (SNL)
Brittany Murphy "Home is where my mom is."

Brittany Murphy
(11/10/1977 – 12/20/2009)
US actor
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev "Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

Leonid Brezhnev
(12/19/1906 – 11/10/1982)
Russian statesman
"A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."

Lisa Kirk
(02/25/1925 – 11/10/1990)
US actor
"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults."

Louis Nizer
(02/06/1911 – 11/10/1994)
English-US lawyer
Ken Kesey "You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."

Ken Kesey
(09/17/1935 – 11/10/2001)
US writer
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

Irv Kupcinet
(07/31/1912 – 11/10/2003)
US writer
Vladimir Palanuik "I'm amazed people read this crap about us—about me most of all."

Jack Palance
(02/18/1919 – 11/10/2006)
US actor , on gossip
Norman Mailer "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

Norman Mailer
(01/31/1923 – 11/10/2007)
US writer

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