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"Following the sun, we left the old world."
Christopher Columbus
(08/26/1451 – 05/20/1506)
Italian explorer 

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
Dolley Madison
(05/20/1768 – 07/12/1849)
US first lady (4) (married to James Madison; see other US First Ladies) 

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
Honore de Balzac
(05/20/1799 – 08/18/1850)
French writer 

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time."
John Stuart Mill
(05/20/1806 – 05/08/1873)
English philosopher, economist 

"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
Marquis de Lafayette
(09/06/1757 – 05/20/1834)
French soldier, statesman , on the United States of America 

"Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood
Of vague indifference; and yet with me
Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood
For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea
Of grass that waves around thee!"
John Clare
(07/13/1793 – 05/20/1864)
English writer 

"There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first."
Adela Rogers St. Johns
(05/20/1894 – 08/10/1988)
US journalist 

"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"
Margery Allingham
(05/20/1904 – 06/30/1966)
English writer 

"When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best."
James Stewart
(05/20/1908 – 07/02/1997)
US actor 

"I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved."
George Gobel
(05/20/1919 – 02/24/1991)
US comedian 

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing—and then marry him."
Cher
(05/20/1946 – )
Armenian-US singer, actor (was married to Sonny Bono, Gregg Allman) 

"If people want to believe I'm a dominatrix in my spare time, that's fine with me—I mean, I'm definitely happy to smack people around if that's what they really want."
Jane Wiedlin
(05/20/1958 – )
US singer (Go-Gos) 

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
Gilda Radner
(06/28/1946 – 05/20/1989)
US comic actor (SNL; was married to Gene Wilder) 

"Of course he was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking around him has always tired me."
Sir Max Beerbohm
(08/24/1872 – 05/20/1956)
English writer and artist , on William Morris 

"Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience."
Doug Pappas
(08/??/1962 – 05/20/2004)
US lawyer, baseball statistician 

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