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1600

Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born on January 17, 1600
Dramatist and poet, the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age, 1600-1681

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams

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1706

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706
American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventor. 1706-1790

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security

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1709

Lord Lyttelton was born on January 17, 1709
British statesman and writer, 1709-1773

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

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1771

Charles Brockden Brown was born on January 17, 1771

Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor

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1820

Anne Bronte was born on January 17, 1820
English poet and novelist, 1820-1849

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

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2001

Gregory Corso died on January 17, 2001

They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

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2002

Camilo Jose Cela died on January 17, 2002
Spanish writer, 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1916-2002

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

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2003

Richard Crenna died on January 17, 2003

No one can ever defeat the Afghans.

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2005

Virginia Mayo died on January 17, 2005

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time.

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