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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
| John Adams, President (1735) |
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) |
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) |
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) |
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) |
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) |
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) |
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) |
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) |
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) |
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) |
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) |


