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"I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do."
Tsar Nicholas I
(06/25/1796 – 02/18/1855)
Russian ruler 

"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."
Robert Henri
(06/25/1865 – 07/12/1929)
US artist 

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
Ernest Benn
(06/25/1875 – 01/17/1954)
English publisher 

"Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind."
Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
(04/04/1828 – 06/25/1897)
Scottish writer 

"There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop."
George Orwell
(06/25/1903 – 01/21/1950)
English writer 

"Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze."
Aime Cesaire
(06/25/1913 – 04/17/2008)
Martinique writer 

"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes."
Dorothy Gilman
(06/25/1923 – )
US writer 

"There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors."
Sidney Lumet
(06/25/1924 – 04/9/2011 )
US director 

"Basically, he just wasn't willing to dress up like Louis XIV before we went to bed every night. I really demand that of a partner."
Carly Simon
(06/25/1945 – )
US singer , on why she divorced James Taylor 

"The most popular labor-saving device is still money."
Phyllis George
(06/25/1949 – )
US beauty queen, "personality" 

"English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas."
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
(06/13/1875 – 06/25/1961)
US Governor (TX) , misattributed but I like it 

"I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers."
George Michael
(06/25/1963 – )
English singer (Wham!) 

"Oh, yeah, I'm drinkin' again, it's always the same
That same old story
After the kicks there's little old mixed-up me
Tryin' to lose a dream that used to be"
Johnny Mercer
(11/18/1909 – 06/25/1976)
US songwriter 

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
Jacques Cousteau
(06/11/1910 – 06/25/1997)
French oceanographer 

"It's great to be alive. A lot of folks aren't, you know."
Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA) 

"I always felt that the National Enquirer was as invasive and malignant as cancer; but now I realize that it just runs a close second."
Farrah Fawcett(-Majors)
(02/02/1947 – 06/25/2009)
US actor 

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily."
Michael Jackson
(08/29/1958 – 06/25/2009)
US singer, dancer, songwriter, baby-dangler... 

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