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Birthdays occurring on January, 29

1866 Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866
French writer, 1866-1944
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so
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1874 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was born on January 29, 1874
American philanthropist. 1874-1960
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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1874 Owen Davis was born on January 29, 1874
(The war) didn't really have an effect. Thinking a lot about the fact that we are at war did not deter me at all.
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1880 W. C. Fields was born on January 29, 1880
American comic and actor, 1880-1946
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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1908 Adam Clayton Powell was born on January 29, 1908
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
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Deaths occurring on January, 29

2002 Harold Russell died on January 29, 2002
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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2003 Leslie Fiedler died on January 29, 2003
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
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2004 Janet Frame died on January 29, 2004
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
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2006 Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006
South Korean born American Video artist, creator of the term "telecommunication superhighway" and among the first to use telecommunication satellites for artistic exchange 1932-2006
I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.
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