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Elbert Hubbard
June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a ...
Blaise Pascal
June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by ...
Reinhold Niebuhr
June 21, 1892 – June 1971
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs, and ...
Charles Spurgeon
June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various ...
Lillian Hellman
June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American ...
Charles Eames
June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Ormand Eames war ein US-amerikanischer Designer und Architekt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Ray Eames trug er wesentlich zur ...
Igor Stravinsky
June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered to be one of the most important and ...
Matthew Simpson
June 21, 1811 – June 18, 1884
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
Matthew Simpson, was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852 and based mostly in Chicago. During the ...
Mary McCarthy
June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author, critic and political activist.
Jose Rizal
June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896
The youth is the hope of our future.
José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary. ...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author. A "woman of letters" who ...
M. C. Escher
June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
Maurits Cornelis Escher, usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired ...
Errol Flynn
June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-American actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his ...