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Monday, April 20, 2015

Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
(04/20/0121 – ?/0180)
Roman philosopher 
"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them."
Pietro Aretino
(04/20/1492 – 10/21/1556)
Italian writer 
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together."
Dinah Mulock Craik
(04/20/1826 – 10/12/1887)
English writer 
Adolph Hitler"The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed."
Adolph Hitler
(04/20/1889 – 04/30/1945)
German dictator 
Gregory Ratoff"You're a parasite for sore eyes."
Gregory Ratoff
(04/20/1897 – 12/14/1960)
Russian actor 
"I have reiterated over again what I have said before."
Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
(04/20/1910 – 02/12/1991)
US mayor (NYC) 
Jessica Lange"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."
Jessica Lange
(04/20/1949 – )
US actor 
Don Mattingly"His reputation preceded him before he got here."
Don Mattingly
(04/20/1961 – )
US baseball player , on Dwight Gooden 
Crispin Glover"Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines—that's okay."
Crispin Glover
(04/20/1964 – )
US actor 
Tara Leigh Patrick"I worry about him. I feel kinda like a mom."
Carmen Electra
(04/20/1972 – )
US model, actor , on ex-hubby Dennis Rodman 
Archibald MacLeish"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words."
Archibald MacLeish
(05/07/1892 – 04/20/1982)
US writer 
Alfred Hawthorn Hill"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."
Benny Hill
(01/21/1925 – 04/20/1992)
English comic actor 
Octavio Paz"'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game."
Octavio Paz
(03/31/1914 – 04/20/1998)
Mexican writer 

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