Daniel Boone – 1734 – Explorer
“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.”
Marie Antoinette – 1755 – French Royalty
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
James K. Polk – 1795 – 11th President of the United States
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.”
Georges Sorel – 1847 – Philosopher
“Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.”
Warren G. Harding – 1865 – 29th President of the United States
“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.”
Harlow Shapley – 1885 – Scientist
“Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.”
Burt Lancaster – 1913 – Actor
“Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.”
Paul Johnson – 1928 – Journalist
“Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.”
Bill Gothard – 1934 – Clergyman
“A message prepared in the mind reaches the mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.”
Rose Bird – 1936 – Judge
“My role isn’t to be politically smart. My role is to do what’s right under the constitution. And if that’s politically unpopular, so be it.”
Pat Buchanan – 1938 – Journalist
“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.”
Stefanie Powers – 1942 – Actress
“‘Bossy’ is someone who bosses people around without reason.”
Lois McMaster Bujold – 1949 – Writer
“What you are is a question only you can answer.”
Shahrukh Khan – 1965 – Actor
“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
Nelly – 1974 – Musician (Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr.)
“I don’t believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.”
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