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"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."

✒ #JamesHarrington, English philosopher and author, #DOTD 11 September 1677. #Philosophy #Literature #Politics

Berry #DOTD tomorrow: she died in the September 11 attacks, as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11.

"The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives."

📸 Remembering #WilliamKlein, French photographer, #DOTD 10 September 2022, aged 94. #Art #Photography

"Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me.""

✒ #NorahLofts, English author, #DOTD 10 September 1983. #Literature

"Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow."

✒ #CorneliaMeigs, American author, #DOTD 10 September 1973. #Theatre #Literature

🏥 Sir #HaroldGillies, New Zealand 'father of modern plastic surgery' who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, #DOTD 10 September 1960.

🎨 #PieterFontijn, Dutch painter, member of the Confrerie Pictura, #DOTD 10 September 1839. #Art #Painting

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

✒ #MaryWollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist - wife to #WilliamGodwin and mother to #MaryShelley - #DOTD 10 September 1797. #Philosophy #History #Literature #WomensRights

#DOTD in 1676 – Digger #GerrardWinstanley, patron saint of the #commons:

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Remembering Peter Tetteroo, the voice and driving force behind Dutch Nederbeat pop-rockers Tee-Set, who #DOTD in 2002 after a battle with liver cancer. He was 55 years old.

Peter Tetteroo
July 8, 1947 ~ September 9, 2002

🎨 #HenriDeToulouseLautrec, French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, #DOTD 9 September 1901. #Art #Illustration #Painting

"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."

✒ #NicolaAbbagnano, Italian existential philosopher and academic, #DOTD 9 September 1990. #Philosophy

"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

✒ #JacquesLacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, #DOTD 9 September 1981.