- Jean Racine
(12/22/1639 – 04/21/1699)
French writer
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| Died 04/20 | Died 04/21 | Died 04/22 | Death Dates |
"Extreme justice is often injustice."
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| "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough." |  |
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves."
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"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."
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| "For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature."
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"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
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"Once you've had chemotherapy, there's no such thing as a bad-hair day."
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"Music is a gift and a burden I've had since
I can remember who I was."
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"He looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him and come back with his elders to get things straightened out."
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| Born 04/20 | Born 04/21 | Born 04/22 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 04/20 | Died 04/21 | Died 04/22 | Death Dates |