Quotes from authors that died on Aug 28th
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
E. P. Thompson
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
Bruce Catton
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
E. P. Thompson
April Winchell 
Dorothy Height 
Stellan Skarsgard 
Dennis Rodman 
Alan Bennett 
Mikhail Baryshnikov 
Wendell L. Wilkie 
T-Bone Burnett