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"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
Moses ben Maimon
(03/30/1135 12/13/1204)
Spanish philosopher
"Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(09/18/1709 12/13/1784)
English writer, lexicographer
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
(12/13/1797 02/17/1856)
German writer
"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you."
Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835 01/23/1893)
US clergyman
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."
Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(12/13/1865 01/06/1943)
US educator, lawyer
(grandfather of Amy Lowell)
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Emily Carr
(12/13/1871 03/02/1945)
Canadian artist, writer
"A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately."
Eleanor Robson Belmont
(12/13/1879 10/24/1979)
English-US actor, writer
"Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
Ross MacDonald
(12/13/1915 07/11/1983)
US writer
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
George P. Schultz
(12/13/1920 )
US Secretary of State (60)
"I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl [Reiner]."
Dick van Dyke
(12/13/1925 )
US comic, actor
"Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life."
Wassily Kandinsky
(12/04/1866 12/13/1944)
Russian artist
"The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious."
Lester Bangs
(12/13/1948 04/30/1982)
US writer
"Basically, I'm just an erector set looking for some volts."
Ted Nugent
(12/13/1948 )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist
"The press deserves nothing but lies."
Tom Verlaine
(12/13/1949 )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Television)
"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive codependent."
Berton Averre
(12/13/1954 )
English singer (the Knack)
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail."
Steve Buscemi
(12/13/1957 )
US actor, fireman
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
L. P. Hartley
(12/30/1895 12/13/1972)
English writer
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
Mary Renault
(09/04/1905 12/13/1983)
English writer
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