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Galileo Galilei Quotes
Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. Born: February 15, 1564, Pisa, Italy Died: January 8, 1642, Arcetri, Italy All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. We cannot teach…
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Friendship and the E-World
Man is a social animal. This is the dictum we have been taught right from our school days. However, time has come to change this evidently into “Man is a social media animal”. Even though it seems to be a funny statement, there is much truth in this. Statistics shows that man has become more…
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Gertrude Stein Quotes
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, and playwright.She is best known for her modernist writings, extensive art collecting and literary salon in 1920s Paris. A literary innovator and a pioneer of Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of the 19th-century. She was also known as a collector of Modernist…
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Born: February 1818, Talbot County, Maryland, United States Died: February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C., United States Without a struggle, there can be no progress. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. I prayed for twenty years…
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Alice Paul Quotes
Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women’s rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. On January 11th 2016th Google put special doodle for AlicePaul’s 131st birthday. Born: January 11, 1885, Mount…
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Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King”. Born: December 30, 1865, Mumbai, India Died: January 18, 1936, London, United Kingdom Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by…
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Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. Born: December 1770, Bonn, Germany Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria On Dec 17th 2015 ,the Search Engine Google showed…
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BKS Iyengar Quotes
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, was the founder of the style of yoga known as “Iyengar Yoga” and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. Born: December 14, 1918, Bellur, Karnataka Died: August 20, 2014, Pune, India Breath is the king of mind. Yoga does not…
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Born: December 8, 1894,United States Died: November 2, 1961,United States Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.…
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Horace Quotes
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Born: December 8, 65 BC, Venosa, Italy Died: November 27, 8 BC, Rome, Italy Rule your mind or it will rule you. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in…
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Born: December 4, 1795, Ecclefechan, United Kingdom Died: February 5, 1881, London, United Kingdom A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Every noble work is at first impossible. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more…
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Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. Born: November 30, 1874, New London, Prince Edward Island Died: April 24, 1942, Toronto, Canada Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.…