Michael Dobson |
February 6
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“If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around six hundred!”
Babe Ruth, baseball player
born February 6, 1895
Michael Dobson |
May 5
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"Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter."
"The Law of 5," Principia Discordia
for 5/5
Michael Dobson |
May 6
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"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
Orson Welles, actor and director, as Harry Lime in "The Third Man"
born May 6, 1915
Michael Dobson |
May 7
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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume, philosopher
born May 7 [O.S. April 26], 1711
Michael Dobson |
May 8
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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
Thomas Pynchon, author
born May 8, 1937