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"Think and let think."
John Wesley
(06/28/1703 03/02/1791)
English religious leader
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
James Madison
(03/16/1751 06/28/1836)
US President (4)
(was married to Dolley Madison; see all US Presidents)
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
Luigi Pirandello
(06/28/1867 12/10/1936)
Italian playwright
"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."
Alexis Carrel
(06/28/1873 11/05/1944)
French surgeon
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
Maria Mitchell
(08/01/1818 06/28/1889)
US astronomer
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
Ashley Montagu
(06/28/1905 11/26/1999)
English anthropologist
"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."
Mel Brooks
(06/28/1926 )
US actor, director
(was married to Anne Bancroft)
"I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity."
Gilda Radner
(06/28/1946 5/20/1989)
US comic actor
(SNL; was married to Gene Wilder)
"Celebrity is death. . . . celebritythat's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."
John Cusack
(06/28/1966 )
US actor
(brother of Joan Cusack)
"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
Vannevar Bush
(03/11/1890 06/28/1974)
US engineer
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."
Rod Serling
(12/25/1924 06/28/1975)
US writer
"Women! They get too excited and they don't like comic books!"
Edrich Cruz
(06/28/1988 )
US son of a friend
and youngest person on this site
"They're gonna get me sooner or later, let's just hope it's later."
GG Allin
(08/29/1956 06/28/1993)
US performer
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men."
Mortimer Adler
(12/28/1902 06/28/2001)
US educator, philosopher
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