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"My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off."
Alexandre Dumas Père
(07/24/1802 – 12/05/1870)
French writer (father of Alexandre Dumas Fils) 

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
Martin Van Buren
(12/05/1782 – 07/24/1862)
US President (8), VP (8) (see all US Presidents, US VPs) 

"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."
E. F. Benson
(07/24/1867 – 02/29/1940)
English writer (brother of A. C. Benson) 

"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."
Lord Dunsany
(07/24/1878 – 10/25/1957)
English writer 

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
Amelia Earhart
(07/24/1898 – 07/02/1937)
US pilot (went missing 07/02/1937; declared deceased 01/05/1939) 

"Mr. Fitzgerald—I believe that is how he spells his name—seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
(07/24/1900 – 03/10/1948)
US writer (was married to F. Scott Fitzgerald) 

"Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel."
Bella Abzug
(07/24/1920 – 03/31/1998)
US representative (NY) 

"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work."
Gallagher
(07/24/1947 – )
US comic 

"While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach."
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
(09/23/1863 – 07/24/1954)
US writer, social reformer 

"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile."
Sacha Guitry
(02/21/1885 – 07/24/1957)
French writer 

"I'm a lot more sartorial than thespian. They come to see me and go out humming the costumes."
Constance Bennett
(10/22/1904 – 07/24/1965)
US actor (sister of Joan Bennett) 

"I actually saved the newspaper to show my kids one day, but it's not true. Sorry."
Jennifer Lopez
(07/24/1970 – )
US singer, actor , on reports that she'd insured her body for one billion dollars 

"I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen."
Peter Sellers
(09/08/1925 – 07/24/1980)
English actor (was married to Britt Ekland) 

"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
(07/14/1904 – 07/24/1991)
Polish writer 

"It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime."
William J. Brennan, Jr.
(04/25/1906 – 07/24/1997)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices) , on schooling for illegal aliens 

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