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"The man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport,
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
may make his sport confine the laws."
Thomas Chatterton
(11/20/1752 – 08/24/1770)
English writer 

"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of the period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
Sir Max Beerbohm
(08/24/1872 – 05/20/1956)
English writer and artist 

"When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing."
Earl Derr Biggers
(08/24/1884 – 04/05/1933)
US writer (Charlie Chan) 

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
Jean Rhys
(08/24/1894 – 05/14/1979)
Welsh-Dominican writer 

"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it much."
Malcolm Cowley
(08/24/1898 – 03/27/1989)
US writer 

"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges
(08/24/1899 – 06/14/1986)
Argentine writer 

"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."
Howard Zinn
(08/24/1922 – 01/27/2010)
US historian 

"Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility."
Kate Douglas Wiggin
(09/28/1856 – 08/24/1923)
US writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), educator 

"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
Yasser Arafat
(08/24/1929 – 11/11/2004)
Palestinian president 

"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
Simone Weil
(02/03/1909 – 08/24/1943)
French mystic 

"His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum."
Cyril Asquith
(02/05/1890 – 08/24/1954)
English barrister , son of Herbert Henry Asquith (but not Margot Asquith) , on Paul Klee 

"When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault, you know why clothing exists."
Stephen Fry
(08/24/1957 – )
English writer, actor 

"It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it."
Ronald Knox
(02/17/1888 – 08/24/1957)
English writer, theologian 

"Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me."
Marlee Matlin
(08/24/1965 – )
US actor 

"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces."
Henry J. Kaiser
(05/09/1882 – 08/24/1967)
US industrialist 

"Somebody broke into my house once; this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe I lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!'"
Dave Chappelle
(08/24/1973 – )
US comic 

"I don't meet competition. I crush it."
Charles Revson
(10/11/1906 – 08/24/1975)
Canadian executive, Revlon founder 

"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."
Bayard Rustin
(03/17/1910 – 08/24/1987)
US civil rights leader 

"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(07/08/1926 – 08/24/2004)
Swiss psychiatrist 

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