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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
Brittany Murphy "Home is where my mom is."

Brittany Murphy
(11/10/1977 – )
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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