Quotes from authors that died on Jan 17th
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
Julius Wellhausen
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan
Peter Sellers 
Leonardo DiCaprio 
Jeffrey Combs 
Lee Ritenour 
Sadaharu Oh 
Connie Willis 
Mireille Mathieu 
Al Roker