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Births

• 1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh
• 1872 - Bertrand Russell
• 1952 - George Strait
• 1904 - Shunryu Suzuki
• 1798 - Ethan A. Hitchcock

Deaths

• 2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran
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• 1895 - Jose Julian Marti Perez
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• 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune

• The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in World

• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

  Martin Buber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World
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  To the world you may be just one person. But to one person you may be the world.

  Brandi Snyder

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in World

• Imagine a world where everything is free, then seek counseling. That’s too much death to be thinking about.

  Benson Bruno

  Topics in Death, Funny

  Tags in World

• A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

  Kevin Hood

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, World, Writing

• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  Frances Willard

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in World, Waste

• I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.

  Gerard Way

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in World

• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

  William Penn

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That’s the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Important

• You’ll know the economy is dead when industry stops and escalators turn into stairs. That’ll be the day slinkies take over the world.

  Jarod Kintz

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in World
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  Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.

  Frederick Buechner

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in World, Afraid, Happen, Beautiful

• There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in World

• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China – the greatest and oldest despotism in the world – for a cheap working slave.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Work

  Tags in World

• Perhaps it’s better if I live in your heart, where the world can’t see me. If I’m dead, there will be no stain on our love.

  Greta Garbo

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

  Jodi Picoult

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

  Iain Pears

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in World

• Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

  Lemony Snicket

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World

• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in World, Quality, Tears
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  The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

  James Allen

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Savior, World