Quotes from authors passed in 1677
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
Marie Windsor 
Robert Forster 
Barry Corbin 
Pearl White 
Joel Grey 
Ann Druyan 
Debbie Reynolds 
Mariska Hargitay