Michael Dobson |
March 30
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“Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, didn’t eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn’t want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you’d say, ‘Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!’ That’s the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you’ll be run over by a big red bus.”
HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen consort of George IV and mother of Elizabeth II
died March 30, 2002
Michael Dobson |
September 26
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"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons."
T. S. Eliot, poet
born September 26, 1888
Michael Dobson |
September 27
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"When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else."
Sam Ervin, US Senator
born September 27, 1896
Michael Dobson |
September 28
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"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed...for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France
born September 28, 1841
Michael Dobson |
September 29
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"If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
Enrico Fermi, physicist
born September 29, 1901