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Sunday, December 7th, 2014 - 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.   

Where there is great love there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

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Monday, December 8th, 2014 - James Thurber's Birthday



An American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.   

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.
James Thurber

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Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 - John Milton's Birthday



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

Reason is also choice.
John Milton

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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 - Human Rights Day

The people are their own liberators.
Nelson Mandela

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Friday, December 12th, 2014 - 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.     

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

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Saturday, December 13th, 2014 - Heinrich Heine's Birthday



One of the most significant German poets of the 19th century.   

When words leave off music begins.
Heinrich Heine

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Sunday, December 14th, 2014 - Walter Lippmann's Death Anniversary



An American intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator who gained notoriety for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War.   

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter Lippmann

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Monday, December 15th, 2014 - Muriel Rukeyser's Birthday



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

Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.
Muriel Rukeyser

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 - Jane Austen's Birthday



An English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.   

The less said the better.
Jane Austen

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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 - 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

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Thursday, December 18th, 2014 - Mary Parker Follett's Death Anniversary



An American social worker, management consultant and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior.   

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Mary Parker Follett

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Saturday, December 20th, 2014 - Mignon McLaughlin's Death Anniversary



An American journalist and author.   

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

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Sunday, December 21st, 2014 - Rebecca West's Birthday



An English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.     

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014 - Norman Vincent Peale's Death Anniversary



A minister and author and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".   

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Thursday, December 25th, 2014 - Christmas Day

Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther