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"A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished."

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(10/24/1632 – 08/30/1723)
Dutch biologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
"In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education."

Sarah Josepha Hale
(10/24/1788 – 04/30/1879)
US writer Sarah Josepha Hale
"No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals."

Belva Lockwood
(10/24/1830 – 05/19/1917)
US attorney Belva Lockwood
"It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts."

Sybil Thorndike
(10/24/1882 – 06/09/1976)
English actor Sybil Thorndike
"These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: 'I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas."

Brenda Ueland
(10/24/1891 – 03/05/1985)
US writer Brenda Ueland
"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

Moss Hart
(10/24/1904 – 12/20/1961)
US writer Moss Hart
"In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not."

Sonny Terry
(10/24/1904 – 03/12/1986)
US harmonica player Saunders Teddell
"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right."

Bob Kane
(10/24/1915 – 11/03/1998)
US cartoonist, on his character Batman Robert Kahn
"Images
split the truth
in fractions"

Denise Levertov
(10/24/1923 – 12/20/1997)
US writer (same birth and death dates as Moss Hart) Denise Levertov
"Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people."

Adrian Mitchell
(10/24/1932 – )
English writer Adrian Mitchell
"An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing."

Paula Gunn Allen
(10/24/1939 – )
US native writer Paula Gunn Allen
"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

Kevin Kline
(10/24/1947 – )
US actor (married to Phoebe Cates), on doing Shakespeare Kevin Kline
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