Jack Handey (1949) American comedian
Fuzzy Memories (1996), Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-8362-1040-9
Always invest in businesses of the future and in talent
Jack Handey (1949) American comedian
Fuzzy Memories (1996), Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-8362-1040-9
Dan Mathews (1964) American activist
About PETA's activities. “Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism” (April 2005), in PETA.org http://www.peta.org/features/paul-mccartney-interview/.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
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Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1956) former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload spec…
Opening remarks at the First Congress of the Association of Space Explorers, held in Cernay, France. (2 October 1985) I Congress, Association of Space Explorers, 2012-06-21, en http://www.space-explorers.org/congress/congress1.html,
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Diary (27 October 1883)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“After school-leaving exams we were doing creampies.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
A po maturach chodziliśmy na kremówki. <br class="br">Spoken during Pope's last visit to his hometown Wadowice. Source: Papal Creampie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2XZZEDAwY
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Letter to Hugo Boxel (Oct. 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
Context: Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near; thus things regarded in themselves, and in relation to God, are neither ugly nor beautiful. Therefore, he who says that God has created the world, so that it might be beautiful, is bound to adopt one of the two alternatives, either that God created the world for the sake of men's pleasure and eyesight, or else that He created men's pleasure and eyesight for the sake of the world. Now, whether we adopt the former or the latter of these views, how God could have furthered His object by the creation of ghosts, I cannot see. Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.<!--p. 382
Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton (1965)