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Today's Anniversary - 25th May

Births

• 1898 - Bennett Cerf
• 1897 - Gene Tunney
• 1966 - Tatjana Patitz
• 1930 - Sonia Rykiel
• 1959 - Julian Peter McDonald Clary

Deaths

• 2003 - Sloan Wilson
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• If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

  Maurice Saatchi

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• There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

  Kevin Rudd

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  So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• If you’re at an award ceremony, you’re against your mates.

  Imelda Staunton

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• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  Igor Ivanov

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• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Ignazio Silone

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• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  Ida B. Wells

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• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn’t do!

  Ian Smith

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• And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

  Ian Rush

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• Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

  Iain Duncan Smith

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• When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

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• In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

  Fritz Sauckel

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• When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations – the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

  Boris Spassky

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• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where’s your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?

  Frederick Carl Frieseke

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• No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

  Fred Hammond

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• I was worried in the ’80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  Frank Stella

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• In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

  Frank Oz

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• Revelations come when you’re in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

  Frank Langella

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