Quotes from authors born in 1909
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker
We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.
Mohammad Rabbani
Kinky Friedman 
Tyne Daly 
David Viscott 
Miyamoto Musashi 
Laurence Sterne 
Claire Forlani 
Geena Davis 
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