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Who Shares Your Day and What Did They Say? This is a collection of thought-provoking quotations for each day of the year by people who share YOUR birthday!

May 6

English: Sigmund Freud

English: Sigmund Freud (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Johann Joachin Becher – 1635 – Chemist, Physician and Adventurer

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to changes places with the Persian king.”

Sigmund Freud – 1856 – Neurologist and Psychiatrist

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

Harry Golden – 1902 – Writer and Newspaper Publisher

“The only thing that overcomes hard work is hard work.”

Orson Welles – 1915 – Director, Writer and Actor

“Create your own visual style … let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

Willie Mays – 1931 – Baseball Player

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport.  You must be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism.  Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.”

Bob Seger – 1945 – Musician

“I never say never, because I don’t want to be one of those guys.”

Tony Blair – 1953 – Youngest Prime Minister of the 20th Century

“I can only go one way.  I’ve not got a reverse gear.”

Tom Bergeron – 1955 – Game Show Host

“I work best when people are here to puncture me.”

Orson Welles, March 1, 1937

Orson Welles, March 1, 1937 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Clooney – 1961 – Actor

“The only failure is not to try.”

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