
English: Portrait photograph of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mary Wollstonecraft – 1759 – Writer
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Herbert Spencer – 1820 – Philosopher
“Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.”
Ulysses S. Grant – 1822 – 18th President of the United States
“It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.”
Edward Whymper – 1840 – Explorer
“Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what my be the end.”
Rogers Hornsby – 1896 – Athlete
“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”
C. Day Lewis – 1904 – Poet
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
Jack Klugman – 1922 – Actor
“Poverty can teach lessons privilege cannot.”
Coretta Scott King – 1927 – Civil Rights Leader
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
Anouk Aimee – 1932 – Actress
“It’s so much better to desire than to have.”
August Wilson – 1945 – Playwright
“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”
Eric Schmidt – 1955 – Businessman
“We weren’t here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.”
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