“For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.”
“The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
| Otto Bauer, Writer (1881) |
| Amy Marcy Beach, Musician (1867) |
| John Cage, Composer (1912) |
| Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher (1568) |
| John Griffin Carlisle, Politician (1834) |
| John C. Danforth, Politician (1936) |
| William Devane, Actor (1940) |
| Werner Erhard, Celebrity (1935) |
| Alcee Hastings, Politician (1936) |
| Jesse James, Criminal (1847) |
| Douglas Bader, Soldier (1982) |
| Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1990) |
| Leon Edel, Critic (1997) |
| Paul Gillmor, Politician (2007) |
| Mother Teresa, Leader (1997) |