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Will Rogers
November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He ...
Albert Camus
November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy ...
Will Durant
November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
William James Durant was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written ...
Robert Mapplethorpe
November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his sometimes controversial large-scale, highly stylized black and white ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which ...
William C. Bryant
November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Vivien Leigh
November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Vivian Mary Hartley, later known as Vivien Leigh, was a British stage and film actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for her ...
Marie Curie
November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. ...
James K. Polk
November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and ...
Andre Malraux
November 3, 1901 – November 23, 1976
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
André Malraux DSO was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine won the Prix ...
George Edward Moore
November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward "G. E." Moore OM, FBA was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Gottlob Frege, one ...
Roy Rogers
November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
Roy Rogers was an actor and a singer.
George A. Sheehan
November 5, 1918 – November 1993
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan was a physician and author best known for his writings about the sport of running. His book, "Running & Being: The Total ...
John Philip Sousa
November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic ...
Leon Trotsky
November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Trotsky ...
Maude Adams
November 1872 – July 17, 1953
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden, known professionally as Maude Adams, was an American actress who achieved her greatest success as the ...
Marie Antoinette
November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793
Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette, born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to ...
Warren G. Harding
November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the ...
James Montgomery
November 4, 1771 – April 30, 1854
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
James Montgomery was a British poet, hymnwriter and editor. He was particularly associated with humanitarian causes such as the campaigns ...
Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times ...
Bob Barr
November 5, 1948 – 1935
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. is a former federal prosecutor and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He ...
Konrad Lorenz
November 7, 1903 – February 27, 1989
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...