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Parte de la gran inquietud y de los trastornos del mundo actual se deben no tanto al cambio mismo como al paso acelerado en que se produce el cambio. — Jonas Salk, El hombre se descubre a sí mismo (1973). Born on this day in 1914.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000). Born on this day in 1932.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. — Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. — Pablo Picasso, born on this day in 1881

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it. — Stephen Covey, born on this day in 1932

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I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless. — Michael Crichton, born on this day in 1942

Anyone who reads history at all knows that the passionate and powerful convictions of one century usually seem absurd, extraordinary, to the next. — Doris Lessing, born on this day in 1919

Words are events, they do things, change things. — Ursula K. Le Guin, born on this day in 1929

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought, as to say that he has taught when no one has learned. — John Dewey, born on this day in 1859

Swiftness is a great virtue in the fairy tale. A good tale moves with a dreamlike speed from event to event, pausing only to say as much as is needed and no more. — Philip Pullman, born on this day in 1946

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. — Henri Bergson, born on this day in 1859

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play — but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. — Arthur Miller, born on this day in 1915

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. — Oscar Wilde, born on this day in 1854

What makes Heroic? — To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche, born on this day in 1844

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way. — John Wooden, born on this day in 1910

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. — Margaret Thatcher, born on this day in 1925

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. — Edith Stein, born on this day in 1891

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. — Eleanor Roosevelt, born on this day in 1884

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. — Harold Pinter, born on this day in 1930

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon, born on this day in 1940

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. — Frank Herbert, born on this day in 1920

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. — Desmond Tutu, born on this day in 1931

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Fannie Lou Hamer, born on this day in 1917

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. — Václav Havel, born on this day in 1936

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. — Anne Rice, born on this day in 1941

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal, born on this day in 1925

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. — Mahatma Gandhi, born on this day in 1869

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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. — Rumi, born on this day in 1207

In great dangers, the small hope of overcoming them draws desperate strength from the spirit. — Miguel de Cervantes, born on this day in 1547

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. — Georges Clemenceau, born on this day in 1841

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything. — Ernest Becker, born on this day in 1924

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — T. S. Eliot, born on this day in 1888

Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner, born on this day in 1897

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on this day in 1896

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Your blessings and your curses often come in the same package. — Bruce Springsteen, born on this day in 1949

Customers don’t care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs. — Eric Ries, born on this day in 1979

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. — Stephen King, born on this day in 1947

The man who fears losing has already lost. — George R. R. Martin, born on this day in 1948

Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? — William Golding, born on this day in 1911

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. — Cheryl Strayed, born on this day in 1968