Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
[....] “A dolphin lying on the sands, dried out by the North wind, could refer to the Gangetic dolphin, as in fact it does at 1.17.6...
India and the Ancient World: History, Trade and Culture Before A.D. 650 edited by Gilbert Pollet (Paper by Michael Witzel), Department Oriëntalistiek Leuven, 1987.
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
Interview by Anne Gearan of the Associated Press http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/78200.htm, December 21, 2006.
“I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)
“Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.”
Roy Blount Jr. (1941) American writer
“Reading and Nothingness, Of Proust in the Summer Sun,” New York Times (June 2, 1985).
Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
"Iran Headlines: Khamenei’s Grandchildren, Additional Protocol, and Summer Tourism" http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/iran-at-saban/posts/headlines-2014/07/29-khamenei-grandchildren-rare-public-appearance, Brookings (July 19, 2014)
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Empire Rally of Youth at the Royal Albert Hall (18 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 162-163.
1937
Context: The twenty post-War years have shown that war does not settle the account. There is a balance brought forward. When emancipation is achieved a new slavery may begin. The moment of victory may be the beginning of defeat. The days which saw the framing of the League of Nations saw the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Should both be entered on the credit side? Twenty years ago we should all have said, "Yes"; to-day the reply would be doubtful, for both have belied the hopes of mankind and given place to disillusion. Freedom for common men, which was to have been the fruit of victory, is once more in jeopardy in our own land because it has been taken away from the common men of other lands.
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)