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- January 21 - February 18 -
January 21, 1824 "Stonewall" Jackson:
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
January 22, 1729 G. E. Lessing:
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
January 23, 1930 Derek Walcott:
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
January 24, 1712 Frederick The Great:
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
January 25, 1882 Virginia Woolf:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
January 26, 1880 Douglas MacArthur:
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
January 27, 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
January 28, 1873 Colette:
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
January 29, 1954 Oprah Winfrey:
Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.
January 30, 1866 Gelett Burgess:
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
January 31, 1797 Franz Schubert:
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
February 1, 1561 Francis Bacon:
If a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
February 2, 1905 Ayn Rand:
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
February 3, 1909 Simone Weil:
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude.
February 4, 1842 Georg Brandes:
The stream of time sweeps away errors and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
February 5, 1900 Adlai Stevenson:
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
February 6, 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor:
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
February 7, 1875 Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer:
A real teacher says: I'll teach you to become free - even from me.
February 8, 1828 Jules Verne:
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
February 9, 1944 Alice Walker:
Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
February 10, 1775 Charles Lamb:
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole encyclopedia behind the rest of the world.
February 11, 1955 Anneli J??tteenm?ki, Finnish politician:
You win only if you have a desire and will to win and backing of a group of people, who have wholeheartedly decided that we want you.
February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln:
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
February 13, 1910 Margaret Halsey:
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
February 14, 1904 Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish politician
Thinking