“People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”~Harold Robbins American author Harold Robbins was born on this day in 1916.
“People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”~Harold Robbins American author Harold Robbins was born on this day in 1916.
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."~Nora Ephron American journalist, writer, and filmmaker Nora Ephron was born on this day in 1941.
"I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other."~Tina Fey American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright Tina Fey was born on this day in 1970
“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”~Jim Henson American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, filmmaker, and screenwriter Jim Henson died on this day in 1990.
"There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path."~Mike Wallace American journalist and newscaster Mike Wallace was born on this day in 1918.
"I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across."~Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer Gene Wolfe was born on this day in 1931.
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."~Horace Mann Horace Mann, American education reformer and politician, was born on this day in 1796.
“SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.”~Larry Niven American science fiction writer Larry Niven was born on this day in 1938.
“The beginning is always today.”~Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer, philosopher, and women's rights advocate, was born on this day in 1759.
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”~William Shakespeare The Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare, was born on this day in 1564.
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