Quotes from authors born on Oct 8th
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Stephanie Zimbalist
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Chevy Chase
Jim Gerlach 
Walter Sisulu 
Evelyn Underhill 
Robert Ley 
Carl Lewis 
Abe Fortas 
Holly Marie Combs 
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