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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Quotes from people born on June 14th

I love quotes, and their are lots of good ones. But how to choose? I decided to narrow it down to quotes from people born on this day in history.

 "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
 "Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly" - Robert M. La Follette
 "Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance , but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them." -Alois Alzheimer
 "I believe that true art is universal in its appeal" John McCormack
 "time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way" Yasunari Kawabata
 "Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun." Rene Char
 "I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich." Pierre Salinger
 "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war" -Donald trump