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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Don Adams, Comedian (1926) |
Roberto Calvi, Businessman (1920) |
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Politician (1933) |
Susan Davis, Politician (1944) |
Peter Davison, Actor (1951) |
Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist (1960) |
Thomas Jefferson, President (1743) |
Garry Kasparov, Celebrity (1963) |
Howard Keel, Actor (1919) |
Jacques Lacan, Psychologist (1901) |
Bruno Bauer, Theologian (1882) |
Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist (1941) |
Jean De La Fontaine, Poet (1695) |