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Joel Roberts Poinsett was an American physician, diplomat and botanist. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the...

A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny. Isaiah Edwin Leopold, better known as Ed Wynn, was an American...

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." Better known as Irving Berlin, Israel Baline was an American...

"Today we brushed up and marched into Washington and were reviewed by the President. As we passed the White House I had my first view...

"We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire." Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino revolutionary,...

"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers." Israel Iskowitz, better known as Eddie Cantor was an American comedian, actor,...

"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe." Joseph Banks was an English naturalist, botanist,...

"I never said it was possible. I only said it was true" Charles Robert Richetwas a French physiologist at the Collège de France known for...

"Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world." Oliver Ellsworth was...

"When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say." Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, and record...

"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own...

"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand." Edward Victor Appleton was an English...

John Warne Gates, also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of...

"I was thrown out of every school I ever went to." Richard Jay Belzer was an American actor, stand-up comedian, and author.[1] He was...

Alec Rose was a nursery owner and fruit merchant in England who, after serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, developed a passion...

"We have been in a Committee of the Whole for some time, and have under consideration a number of very important propositions…[We] are...

John Weldon Rusk, was, a retired D.C. building inspector who for years played Uncle Sam in ceremonies, pageants, school programs,...

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you...

John Eberhard Faber sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber; was a German-born American manufacturer of pencils in New York. Faber in the...

"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world." Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert...