December 26 Birthdays

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Author Profession: Chinese Leader
Born: 1893-12-26
Died: 1976-09-09

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Mao Zedong

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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Author Profession: Mathematician
Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
Considered by some to be a "father of the computer"
Born: 1792-12-26
Died: 1871-10-18

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Quotes: Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

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Author Profession: English actor. Playing the role of Jon Snow in the television series Game of Thrones.
Born: 1986-12-26
Died:

Kit Harington

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

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Author Profession: US actor, singer-songwriter, and director.
Born: 1971-12-26
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Jared Leto

Be brave, follow dreams, say fuck you to everybody and fight for what you believe in.

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Author Profession: US music producer, handgun user
Born: 1940-12-26
Died: 2021-01-16

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Quotes: Phil Spector

Phil Spector

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

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Author Profession: Memoir, Humor And Comedy, Short Stories
Born: 1956-12-26

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Quotes: David Sedaris

David Sedaris

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. David Sedaris, Barrel Fever

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1979-12-26

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Quotes: Chris Daughtry

Chris Daughtry

You have to think theres a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

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Author Profession: British Writer
Born: 1913-12-26
Died: 1992-05-22

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Quotes: Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

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Author Profession: German Poet
Born: 1769-12-26
Died: 1860-01-29

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Quotes: Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

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Author Profession: US Entertainer
Born: 1945-12-26

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Quotes: John Walsh

John Walsh

People dont understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You cant see the joy of your previous life.

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Author Profession: Public Servant
Born: 1949-12-26

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Quotes: Jose Ramos-Horta

Jose Ramos-Horta

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized, its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

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Author Profession: British Writer
Born: 1872-12-26
Died: 1967-10-07

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Quotes: Norman Angell

Norman Angell

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

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Author Profession: US Businessman
Born: 1953-12-26

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Quotes: Randy Falco

Randy Falco

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

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Author Profession: US Artist
Born: 1923-12-26
Died: 2013-02-09

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Quotes: Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager

I would wake up at night and think, What the hell have I gotten myself into? You dont want to do that! But you gotta do something, and with art, theres freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

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Author Profession: US Entertainer
Born: 1921-12-26
Died: 2000-10-30

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Quotes: Steve Allen

Steve Allen

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

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Author Profession: English writer
Born: 1716-12-26
Died: 1771-07-30

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Quotes: Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

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Author Profession: US writer
Born: 1891-12-26
Died: 1980-06-07

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Quotes: Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

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Author Profession: US drummer (Metallica)
Born: 1963-12-26

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Quotes: Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich

That's what we're all about, taking advantage of people.

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Author Profession: US Activist
Born: 1944-12-26

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Quotes: Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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