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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!

November 2

on November 2, 2013
English: James K. Polk - 11th President of the...

English: James K. Polk – 11th President of the United States (1845-1849) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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

English: Warren G. Harding

English: Warren G. Harding (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“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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