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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
Samuel Johnson "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
Mary Todd Lincoln "Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state—not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"

Mary Todd Lincoln
(12/13/1818 – 07/16/1882)
US First Lady (16) (wife of Abraham Lincoln; see all US First Ladies)
Phillips Brooks "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)
Emily Carr "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
Eleanor Robson Belmont "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
Kenneth Millar "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)
Dick van Dyke "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
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer "Working with Julie Andrews is like being hit over the head with a Valentine card."

Christopher Plummer
(12/13/1929 – )
Canadian actor
Wassily Kandinsky "Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life."

Wassily Kandinsky
(12/04/1866 – 12/13/1944)
Russian artist
Lester Bangs "The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious."

Lester Bangs
(12/13/1948 – 04/30/1982)
US writer
Ted Nugent "Basically, I'm just an erector set looking for some volts."

Ted Nugent
(12/13/1948 – )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist
Tom Miller "The press deserves nothing but lies."

Tom Verlaine
(12/13/1949 – )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Television)
Berton Averre "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive codependent."

Berton Averre
(12/13/1954 – )
English singer (the Knack)
Steve Buscemi "My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail."

Steve Buscemi
(12/13/1957 – )
US actor, fireman
Leslie Poles Hartley "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L. P. Hartley
(12/30/1895 – 12/13/1972)
English writer
Mary Renault "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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