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"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."
William Penn
(10/14/1644 – 07/30/1718)
English-US Quaker leader, colonist

"When a new book is published, read an old one." Samuel Rogers
(07/30/1763 – 12/18/1855)
English writer

"Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care beyond today." Thomas Gray
(12/26/1716 – 07/30/1771)
English writer

"All children are essentially criminal." Denis Diderot
(10/05/1713 – 07/30/1784)
French philosopher, encyclopedist

"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them." Emily Brontë
(07/30/1818 – 12/19/1848)
English writer (sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë)

"Invention is the mother of necessity." Thorstein Veblen
(07/30/1857 – 08/03/1929)
Norwegian economist (died near his birthday)

"Any colour—so long as it's black." Henry Ford
(07/30/1863 – 04/07/1947)
US inventor, industrialist , on Model T paint options

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." Casey Stengel
(07/30/1891 – 09/29/1975)
US baseball great

"There is a right physical size for every idea." Henry Moore
(07/30/1898 – 08/31/1986)
English sculptor

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." Otto von Bismarck
(04/01/1815 – 07/30/1898)
German Chancellor

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take." C. Northcote Parkinson
(07/30/1909 – 03/09/1993)
English writer

"As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, 'Relax... you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients,' but another kept reminding me, 'Howard, you are a veterinarian.'" (Probably not this) Dick Wilson
(07/30/1916 – 11/19/2007)
US actor

"For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food." Joyce Kilmer
(12/06/1886 – 07/30/1918)
US writer

"Nobody ever says to men, 'how can you be a Congressman and a father.'" Pat Schroeder
(07/30/1940 – )
US congressperson (CO)

"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it." Arnold Schwarzenegger
(07/30/1947 – )
Austrian body builder, actor, groper, governor (CA) (married to Maria Shriver)

"If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face, 'I'm cheap!'" Delta Burke
(07/30/1956 – )
US actor

"This big rat just happened to scuttle along at the very moment I was telling them I had scabies." Rat Scabies
(07/30/1957 – )
English drummer (the Damned) , on how he got his name

"After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's where I write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person." Kate Bush
(07/30/1958 – )
English singer, songwriter, dancer, musician

"I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'Oooh.'" Laurence Fishburne
(07/30/1961 – )
US actor

"In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it." Lisa Kudrow
(07/30/1963 – )
US actor

"The films are polar opposites. In one, I had to strap my breasts down and in the other push them up." Hilary Swank
(07/30/1974 – )
US actor , on the emotive range of her mammaries in "Boys Don't Cry" and "The Affair of the Necklace"

"I don't need bodyguards." Jimmy Hoffa
(02/14/1913 – 07/30/1975)
US union leader

"Composers shouldn't think too much—it interferes with their plagiarism." Howard Dietz
(09/08/1896 – 07/30/1983)
US actor

"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally." Lynn Fontanne
(12/06/1887 – 07/30/1983)
English-US actor , on her age

"If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die." Claudette Colbert
(09/13/1903 – 07/30/1996)
French actor

"I hope I never get so old I get religious." Ingmar Bergman
(07/14/1918 – 07/30/2007)
Swedish film director