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Author Profession: British Royalty
Born: 1819-05-24
Died: 1901-01-22

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Queen Victoria

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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Author Profession: US singer/songwriter
Born: 1941-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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Author Profession: German Actress
Born: 1914-05-24
Died: 1986-01-27

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Quotes: Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

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Author Profession: Russian Poet

Born: 1940-05-24
Died: 1996-01-28

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Quotes: Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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Author Profession: Australian Politician
Born: 1959-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Barry O'Farrell

Barry O'Farrell

No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

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Author Profession: US Politician
Born: 1918-05-24
Died: 1997-11-29

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Quotes: Coleman Young

Coleman Young

Ive learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object, sometimes the object doesnt move.

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Author Profession: French Athlete
Born: 1966-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1989-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: G-Eazy

G-Eazy

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

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Author Profession: Jamaican Musician
Born: 1967-05-24
Died: 2011-11-08

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Quotes: Heavy D

Heavy D

Theres something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldnt do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And thats extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

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Author Profession: US Businessman
Born: 1960-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: James O'Shaughnessy

James O'Shaughnessy

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didnt understand, and they were overleveraged.

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Author Profession: US Athlete
Born: 1980-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Jason Babin

Jason Babin

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - its talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talks gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or werent playing harder or as hard as they could.

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1944-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Patti LaBelle

Patti LaBelle

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and dont let anybody crush your dream.

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Author Profession: French Actor
Born: 1971-05-24
Died: —

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Quotes: Thomas Langmann

Thomas Langmann

It doesnt matter if its black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and its very good for cinema.

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Author Profession: English playwright
Born: 1855-05-24
Died: 1934-11-23

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Quotes: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

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Author Profession: US Supreme Court
Born: 1870-05-24
Died: 1938-07-09

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Quotes: Benjamin Cardozo

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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Author Profession: US Baptist clergy
Born: 1878-05-24
Died: 1969-10-05

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Quotes: Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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Author Profession: US writer, hostess
Born: 1883-05-24
Died: 1963-11-01

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Quotes: Elsa Maxwell

Elsa Maxwell

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

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Author Profession: US mayor (Detroit)
Born: 1918-05-24
Died: 1997-11-29

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Quotes: Coleman Young

Coleman Young

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

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