George Canning – 1770 – Statesman
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”
Edward Everett – 1794 – Statesman
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
Charles Evans Hughes – 1862 – Judge
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
Dean Acheson – 1893 – Statesman
“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”
Masaru Ibuka – 1908 – Businessman
“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”
Leo Rosten – 1908 – Humorist
“The fellow who laughs last may last best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”
Norman McLaren – 1914 – Artist
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”
Theodore Isaac Ruben – 1923 – Psychologist
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
Joel Grey – 1932 – Actor
“I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.”
Thomas Harris – 1940 – Author
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
Ellen Goodman – 1948 – Columnist
“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
Dorothy Allison – 1949 – Writer
“Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.”
Ednita Nazario – 1950 – Musician
“I have to trust what I do and then do it.”
Andrew Wiles – 1953 – Mathematician
“However impenetrable it seems, if you don’t try it, then you can never do it.”
Joss Stone – 1987 – Singer (Joscelyn Eve Stoker)
“People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I’m experiencing now is for the first time.”
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