April 2010
29 posts
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“What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world...”
– Ludwig Wittengstein | Died April 29, 1951
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“My gazing soul would dwell an hour,
And in those weaker glories spy
Some...”
– Henry Vaughan | Died April 28, 1695
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we...”
– Carlos Castaneda | Died April 27, 1998
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“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
– Lucille Ball | Died April 26, 1989
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“Perhaps if only once you did enjoy
The thousandth part of all the happiness
A...”
– Torquato Tasso | Died April 25, 1595
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“The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my...”
– Willa Cather | Died April 24, 1947
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“This day is call’d — the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day,...”
– William Shakespeare | Died April 23, 1616
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“For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form … You...”
– Ansel Adams | Died April 22, 1984
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“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want...”
– Mark Twain | Died April 21, 1910
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“We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in...”
– Archibald MacLeish | Died April 20, 1982
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“He welcomed the air raids, the noise of the Mustangs as they swept over the...”
– J.G. Ballard | Died April 19, 2009
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein | Died April 17, 1955
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“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that...”
– Benjamin Franklin | Died April 16, 1790
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“God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive...”
– Alexis de Tocqueville | Died April 16, 1859
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a...”
– Abraham Lincoln | Died April 15, 1865
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“On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the steps of madmen
weave the prints of...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky | Died April 14, 1930
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“To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous;...”
– Jean de la Fontaine | Died April 13, 1695
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“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold,...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt | Died April 12, 1945
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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut | Died April 11, 2007
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“It doesn’t matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and...”
– Evelyn Waugh | Died April 10, 1966
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“They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to...”
– Willie Stargell | Died April 9, 2001
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“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense...”
– Pablo Picasso | Died April 8, 1973
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“The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.”
– P.T. Barnum | Died April 7, 1891
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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
– Isaac Asimov | Died April 6, 1992
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical...”
– Allen Ginsberg | Died April 5, 1997
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“To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e’en the...”
– Oliver Goldsmith | Died April 4, 1774
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“I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with...”
– Graham Greene | Died April 3, 1991
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“What hath God wrought?”
– Samuel Morse | Died April 2, 1872
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“When I’m dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize...”
– Scott Joplin | Died April 1, 1917
March 2010
31 posts
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“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”
– John Donne | Died March 31, 1631
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“O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,...”
– Jean Toomer | Died March 30, 1967
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“I saw a lady on T.V. She was born without arms. Literally, she was born with her...”
– Mitch Hedberg | Died March 29, 2005
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“Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power...”
– Virginia Woolf | Died March 28, 1941
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“We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We...”
– Stanislaw Lem | Died March 27, 2006
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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad....”
– Raymond Chandler | Died March 26, 1959
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...”
– Roland Barthes | Died March 25, 1980
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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its...”
– Jules Verne | Died March 24, 1905
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“Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to...”
– Friedrich Hayek | Died March 23, 1992
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“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Died March 22, 1832
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“They sin who tell us love can die;
With life all other passions fly,
All...”
– Robert Southey | Died March 21, 1843
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“Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but...”
– V.S. Pritchett | Died March 20, 1997
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke | Died March 19, 2008
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“We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after...”
– Bernard Malamud | Died March 18, 1986
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“The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety and the bad man’s awe.”
– Philip Massinger | Died March 17, 1640
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“A good shepherd shears his sheep, he doesn’t flay them.”
– Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar | Died March 16, AD 37
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“But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and...”
– H.P. Lovecraft | Died March 15, 1937
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“Thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly...”
– Sir Thomas Malory | Died March 14, 1471
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“Freedom is a noble thing!
Great happiness does freedom bring.
All solace to a...”
– John Barbour | Died 13, 1395
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“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the...”
– Charlie Parker | Died March 12, 1955
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“Dear Editor: It’s a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them...”
– Erle Stanley Gardner | Died March 11, 1970