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"Love lasteth as long as the money endureth."
William Caxton
(08/13/1422 – 03/??/1491)
English linguist, printer 

"One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it."
Eugene Delacroix
(04/26/1798 – 08/13/1863)
French painter 

"Television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it."
Alfred Hitchcock
(08/13/1899 – 04/29/1980)
English producer, director 

"I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale
(05/12/1820 – 08/13/1910)
English nurse (born in Florence, Italy) 

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
Fidel Castro
(08/13/1927 – )
Cuban dictator 

"When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience."
Mary Austin
(09/09/1868 – 08/13/1934)
US writer 

"Go away. I'm all right."
H. G. Wells
(09/21/1866 – 08/13/1946)
English writer , last words 

"I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a la mode."
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
(08/13/1954 – )
US Rep (FL) , on NAFTA 

"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
Mickey Mantle
(10/20/1931 – 08/13/1995)
US baseball great 

"Many aspects of my method are based on my feeling and experience. For instance, I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it—and, more important, *I* like to give it."
Julia Child
(08/15/1912 – 08/13/2004)
US chef (died near her birthday) 

"It's not technique—it's what you have to say."
Les Paul
(06/09/1915 – 08/13/2009)
US inventor, musician 

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