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Albert Einstein
March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of ...
Clare Boothe Luce
March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
Clare Boothe Luce was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for ...
Lawrence Welk
March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to ...
Jack Kerouac
March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen ...
Earl Nightingale
March 12, 1921 – March 28, 1989
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale was an American motivational speaker and author, known as the "Dean of Personal Development." He was the voice in the ...
Luis Barragan
March 9, 1902 – November 22, 1988
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety of ...
Jim Valvano
March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
James Thomas Anthony "Jim" Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster. While the head basketball ...
Augustus Hare
March 13, 1834 – January 22, 1903
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 - 22 January 1903) was an English writer and raconteur. He was the youngest son of Francis ...
Robert Casey
March 14, 1890 – 1962
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Robert Joseph Casey was born March 14, 1890, in Beresford, South Dakota, and attended St. Mary's College in St. Mary's, Kansas from 1907 to ...
Maxwell Maltz
March 10, 1889 – April 7, 1975
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Maxwell Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve ...
Torquato Tasso
March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly ...
Charlotte Whitton
March 8, 1896 – January 25, 1975
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, OC, CBE was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, ...
George Berkeley
March 12, 1685 – January 12, 1753
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he ...
Harold Wilson
March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister ...
Howard Aiken
March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 - March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's ...
Gene Fowler
March 8, 1890 – July 2, 1960
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler was an American journalist, author and dramatist. He was born in Denver, Colorado. When his mother remarried, young Gene took ...
Kenneth Grahame
March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows, one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote ...
Alan Hovhaness
March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog ...
George M. Humphrey
March 8, 1890 – January 20, 1970
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
George Magoffin Humphrey (March 8, 1890 - January 20, 1970) was an American lawyer, businessman and Cabinet secretary. Raised in ...
William Cobbett
March 9, 1763 – June 18, 1835
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament ...
Ralph Abernathy
March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
Michael Polanyi
March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and ...
Simon Newcomb
March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important ...
Hugh Walpole
March 13, 1884 – June 1941
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was a New Zealand-born English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in ...