- Sir Rowland Hill
(12/03/1795 – 08/27/1879)
English clergyman, writer, postmaster
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| Died 08/26 | Died 08/27 | Died 08/28 | Death Dates |
"A little, round, fat, oily man of God."
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"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
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"I would give nothing for that man's religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it."
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"Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked, and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice."
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
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"All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins."
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"They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it."
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"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
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"My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me."
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"If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can
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| "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite." |
"What I am trying to get across to you is: please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are here for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?"
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"In comparison with the industrial age, the information era is at the steam engine stage. By the time information systems reach jet-plane status, we will focus on utility over fads, triple our productivity, use our computers as naturally and easily as we now use our cars..."
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| Born 08/26 | Born 08/27 | Born 08/28 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 08/26 | Died 08/27 | Died 08/28 | Death Dates |