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Tsar Nicholas I "I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do."

Tsar Nicholas I
(06/25/1796 – 02/18/1855)
Russian ruler
Robert Henri "There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."

Robert Henri
(06/25/1865 – 07/12/1929)
US artist
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

Ernest Benn
(06/25/1875 – 01/17/1954)
English publisher
"Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind."

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
(04/04/1828 – 06/25/1897)
Scottish writer
Eric Arthur Blair "There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop."

George Orwell
(06/25/1903 – 01/21/1950)
English writer
"Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze."

Aime Cesaire
(06/25/1913 – 04/17/2008)
Martinique writer
"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes."

Dorothy Gilman
(06/25/1923 – )
US writer
Carly Simon "Basically, he just wasn't willing to dress up like Louis XIV before we went to bed every night. I really demand that of a partner."

Carly Simon
(06/25/1945 – )
US singer , on why she divorced James Taylor
Phyllis George "The most popular labor-saving device is still money."

Phyllis George
(06/25/1949 – )
US beauty queen, "personality"
"English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas."

Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
(06/13/1875 – 06/25/1961)
US Governor (TX) , misattributed but I like it
George Michael "I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers."

George Michael
(06/25/1963 – )
English singer (Wham!)
Johnny Mercer "Oh, yeah, I'm drinkin' again, it's always the same
That same old story
After the kicks there's little old mixed-up me
Tryin' to lose a dream that used to be"

Johnny Mercer
(11/18/1909 – 06/25/1976)
US songwriter
Jacques-Yves Cousteau "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."

Jacques Cousteau
(06/11/1910 – 06/25/1997)
French oceanographer
Lester Maddox "It's great to be alive. A lot of folks aren't, you know."

Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA)

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