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“It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.”
“Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.”
| Henry Addington, Statesman (1757) |
| Hannes Alfven, Scientist (1908) |
| Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary (1814) |
| Jennifer Ellison, Actress (1983) |
| Steven Gerrard, Athlete (1980) |
| Steve Israel, Politician (1958) |
| Robert Casey, Politician (2000) |
| Paul Desmond, Musician (1977) |
| John B. Keane, Playwright (2002) |