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"Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms:
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms!"
Thomas Hood
(05/23/1799 05/03/1845)
English writer
"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."
Edgar Watson Howe
(05/03/1853 10/03/1937)
US writer
"Whether women are better than men I cannot saybut I can say they are certainly no worse."
Golda Meir
(05/03/1898 12/08/1978)
Russian Israeli leader
"The way I heard it, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Joan Crawford was on the set, in her chair, knitting. Someone rushed over to the set and yelled, 'The Japanese have destroyed Pearl Harbor!" Joan looked up and said, 'Oh, dear. Who was she?'"
Mary Astor
(05/03/1906 09/25/1987)
US actor
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
Earl Wilson
(05/03/1907 01/16/1987)
US columnist
"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
May Sarton
(05/03/1912 07/15/1995)
US writer
"In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else."
Pete Seeger
(05/03/1919 )
US singer/activist
"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent."
Mel Lazarus
(05/03/1927 )
US cartoonist ("Momma")
"Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!"
James Brown
(05/03/1928 12/25/2006)
US singer
"The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful."
Doug Henning
(05/03/1947 02/07/2000)
Canadian magician
"The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating."
Jerzy Kosinski
(06/18/1933 05/03/1991)
Polish writer
"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."
George Murphy
(07/04/1902 05/03/1992)
US dancer, actor, Senator (CA)
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