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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(06/14/1811 – 07/01/1896)
US writer 

"The beauty of the past belongs to the past."
Margaret Bourke-White
(06/14/1904 – 08/27/1971)
US photojournalist 

"Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection."
Mary Cassatt
(05/22/1844 – 06/14/1926)
US artist 

"Silence is argument carried on by other means."
Che Guevara
(06/14/1928 – 10/09/1967)
Argentine revolutionary 

"Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers."
G. K. Chesterton
(05/29/1874 – 06/14/1936)
English writer 

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."
Donald Trump
(06/14/1946 – )
US gazillionaire (was married to Marla Maples) 

"Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus."
Boy George
(06/14/1961 – )
British singer 

"This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. With somebody else's card, of course!"
Yasmine Bleeth
(06/14/1968 – )
US actor, model 

"If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole."
Diablo Cody
(06/14/1978 – )
US writer, stripper 

"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
Jorge Luis Borges
(08/24/1899 – 06/14/1986)
Argentine writer 

"Coughing in the theatre is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."
Alan Jay Lerner
(08/31/1918 – 06/14/1986)
US lyricist (songwriting partner of Frederick Loewe; was married to Nancy Olson, among others) 

"I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics.."
Rory Gallagher
(03/02/1948 – 06/14/1995)
Irish guitarist 

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