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Monday, November 21st, 2016 - Isaac Bashevis Singer's Birthday



A Jewish American author noted for his short stories.   

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Saturday, November 26th, 2016 - Charles M. Schulz's Birthday



An American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.   

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

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Monday, November 28th, 2016 - William Blake's Birthday



An English poet, painter, and printmaker.   

Life delights in life.
Life delights in life.
William Blake

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 - Mark Twain's Birthday



An American author and humorist.   

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

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Thursday, December 1st, 2016 - James Baldwin's Death Anniversary



An American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.   

Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
James Baldwin

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Sunday, December 4th, 2016 - Rainer Maria Rilke's Birthday



A Bohemian–Austrian poet.   

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Monday, December 5th, 2016 - International Volunteers Day 

Make the world better.
Lucy Stone

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Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 - Baltasar Gracian's Death Anniversary



A Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer.   

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

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Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 - Willa Cather's Birthday



An American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.   

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.
Willa Cather

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Thursday, December 8th, 2016 - John Lennon's Death Anniversary



An English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music.     

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

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Friday, December 9th, 2016 - John Milton's Birthday



An English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England.   

Time is the subtle thief of youth.
John Milton

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Saturday, December 10th, 2016 - Human Rights Day

Freedom works.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Monday, December 12th, 2016 - Robert Browning's Death Anniversary



An English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.     

When pain ends gain ends too.
Robert Browning

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Thursday, December 15th, 2016 - Muriel Rukeyser's Birthday



An American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.   

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser

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Saturday, December 17th, 2016 - John Greenleaf Whittier's Birthday



An influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.
John Greenleaf Whittier