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 |
November 8
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"Genius does what it must, talent does what it can."
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, statesman and poet
born November 8, 1831
Michael Dobson |
November 9
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"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all those who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Carl Sagan, astronomer
born November 9, 1934
Michael Dobson |
November 10
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"World history is the world's court."
Friedrich Schiller, poet, historian, and playwright
born November 10, 1759
Michael Dobson |
November 11
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"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
Kurt Vonnegut, writer
born November 11, 1922