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"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
Henry Clay
(04/12/1777 – 06/29/1852)
US Secretary of State 

"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."
Dr. William James Mayo
(06/29/1861 – 07/28/1939)
US doctor, clinic founder (brother of Charles Horace Mayo) 

"Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(03/06/1806 – 06/29/1861)
English writer (was married to Robert Browning) 

"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."
James Harvey Robinson
(06/29/1863 – 02/16/1936)
US historian 

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
Thomas Henry Huxley
(05/04/1825 – 06/29/1895)
English biologist , grandfather of Aldous and Sir Julian Huxley 

"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(06/29/1900 – 07/31/1944)
French writer-adventurer , upsetting Descartes? 

"Get him. Ain't he purty?"
Nelson Eddy
(06/29/1901 – 03/06/1967)
US actor , seeing himself onscreen 

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
Ed Gardner
(06/29/1905 – 08/17/1963)
US actor 

"I understand her. I may not be all Phoebe, but she is all me."
Ruth Warrick
(06/29/1915 – 01/15/2005)
US actor , on her character Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on "All My Children" 

"There was no use working in rodeos for social security. Nobody was very social and there was little security."
Slim Pickens
(06/29/1919 – 12/08/1983)
US actor 

"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady."
Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill
(01/09/1854 – 06/29/1921)
US-born socialite (mother of Winston) 

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
Oriana Falacci
(06/29/1930 – 09/15/2006)
Italian journalist 

"Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight."
John Bradshaw
(06/29/1933 – )
US philosopher 

"One eye sees, the other feels."
Paul Klee
(12/18/1879 – 06/29/1940)
Swiss artist 

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
Stokely Carmichael
(06/29/1941 – 11/15/1998)
US civil-rights activist 

"Never dip lower than you can dip."
Gary Busey
(06/29/1944 – )
US actor 

"Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call."
Richard Lewis
(06/29/1947 – )
US comic 

"We're going to put you back in the fashion department."
Fred "Gopher" Grandy
(06/29/1948 – )
US actor-turned-politician , to a female reporter 

"I've just spent an hour talking to Tallulah for a few minutes."
Fred Keating
(03/27/1897 – 06/29/1961)
US actor 

"If I didn't have a large bosom, people would talk about my small one. So what's the difference. I'm glad I have a large one."
Jayne Mansfield
(04/19/1933 – 06/29/1967)
US actor 

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."
Lana Turner
(02/08/1921– 06/29/1995)
US actor (was married to Artie Shaw and six others) 

"In the final analysis, it's true that fame is unimportant. No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather."
Rosemary Clooney
(05/23/1923 – 06/29/2002)
US singer, actor (was married to Jose Ferrer twice; aunt of George Clooney) 

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."
Katharine Hepburn
(05/12/1907 – 06/29/2003)
US actor 

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