Quotes from authors that died on Jul 17th
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday
Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb
Jurgen Habermas 
Alfred Douglas 
Evelyn Waugh 
Georgie Fame 
Edward G. Robinson 
Carlos Santana 
Barry Sonnenfeld 
Marlo Thomas