“Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.”
“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.”
| Kit Carson, Explorer (1809) |
| Ava Gardner, Actress (1922) |
| Tarja Halonen, Statesman (1943) |
| Saint Ignatius, Saint (1491) |
| Johnny Isakson, Politician (1944) |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet (1881) |
| James Prescott Joule, Physicist (1818) |
| Anil Kapoor, Actor (1959) |
| Hamid Karzai, Statesman (1957) |
| Joel Barlow, Poet (1812) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1850) |
| William Cameron Forbes, Diplomat (1959) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (2005) |