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august 30, 2010 Edition

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On This Day, August 30 …

1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.

Quotes

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

~ Marcus Porcius Cato [the Elder], 234-149 BC, Roman statesman & historian

 

"When a cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes."

~ Thomas Stearns [T. S.] Eliot, 1888-1965, Nobel Prize-winning American-born English poet, playwright & literary critic ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")

 

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

~ Ogden Nash, 1902-1971, whimsical American poet & TV panelist ("Masquerade Party")

 

"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."

~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American founding father, scientist, publisher & diplomat

 

"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."

~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist, humorist & journalist ("Short Furrows")

 

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."

~ Doug Larson

 

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