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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
Henry Ward Beecher
(06/24/1813 – 03/08/1887)
US writer 

"While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur."
Rebecca Harding Davis
(06/24/1831 – 09/29/1910)
US writer 

"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce
(06/24/1842 – ?/1914)
US writer 

"Honey, I just forgot to duck."
Jack Dempsey
(06/24/1895 – 05/31/1983)
US boxer , to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title 

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
Grover Cleveland
(03/18/1837 – 06/24/1908)
US President (22, 24) (see all US Presidents) 

"Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!"
Sarah Orne Jewett
(09/03/1849 – 06/24/1909)
US writer 

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
Norman Cousins
(06/24/1912 – 11/30/1990)
US writer 

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
Sir Fred Hoyle
(06/24/1915 – 08/20/2001)
English astronomer 

"The Constitution gives every American the right to make a damn fool of himself."
John Ciardi
(06/24/1916 – 03/30/1986)
US writer 

"There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular."
Pete Hamill
(06/24/1935 – )
US journalist 

"In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite."
Robert Reich
(06/24/1946 – )
US writer, politician 

"I am a member of the rabble in good standing."
Westbrook Pegler
(08/02/1894 – 06/24/1969)
US writer 

"I don't like animals on me, unless I specifically put them there."
Molly Morris Flasche
(06/24/1972 – )
US artist and friend of the quotekeeper (granddaughter of Mary McConnell Morris) 

"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
Jackie Gleason
(02/26/1916 – 06/24/1987)
US actor, singer 

"In other words...you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you. "
Brian Keith
(11/14/1921 – 06/24/1997)
US actor 

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