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"Whatever your advice, make it brief."

Horace
(12/08/0065 – 11/27/0008 BC)
Italian writer

"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon
(11/27/1635 – 04/15/1719)
French courtesan, writer

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power."

Charles A. Beard
(11/27/1874 – 09/01/1948)
US historian

"Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes."

Alexandre Dumas Fils
(07/27/1824 – 11/27/1895)
French writer (son of Dumas père [duh!])

"That's what you think."

James Agee
(11/27/1909 – 05/16/1955)
US writer, critic, and crossword puzzle answer , reviewing the 1948 film "You Were Meant for Me"

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Bruce Lee
(11/27/1940 – 07/20/1973)
US martial artist, actor

"That's what it's all about—filling up the empty chest cavities and kneecaps and elbows."

Jimi Hendrix
(11/27/1942 – 09/18/1970)
US guitarist, singer, songwriter

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."

Eugene O’Neill
(10/16/1888 – 11/27/1953)
US playwright

"Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over."

Bill Nye
(11/27/1955 – )
US science guy (also see Bill Nye the humorist)

"Milan. What a beautiful place to die."

John Carradine
(02/05/1906 – 11/27/1988)
US actor (father of David Carradine and Keith Carradine; grandfather of Martha Plimpton) , last words

"I believe only in art and failure."

Jane Rule
(03/28/1931 – 11/27/2007)
Canadian writer

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