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August 24

August 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ~ Friedrich Schiller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ Jorge Luis Borges (born 24 August 1899)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ~ Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. ~ Jorge Luis Borges (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * proposed by Kalki

Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.'' ~ Robert Herrick (DoB)
 * 2009
 * ''Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Yasser Arafat (b. August 24. 1929 according to Egyptian birth certificate)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:17, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 02:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 because it's very brilliant. A hint at the "you won't like me when I'm angry" bit as well as the levels of rage which are best kept intact. I knew Arafat said something brilliant like this, it's a good thing it was located. It's also reminiscent of the "carry a big stick" bit which I adore. Zarbon 16:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (I think) allixpeeke (talk) 02:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you. ~ Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951)

 * 2 Kalki 02:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC) Card has done much better. I may work on his article.
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist. ~ Jorge Luis Borges (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 16:09, 23 August 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 03:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 02:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ~ Max Beerbohm (born August 24, 1872)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 16:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. ~ Max Beerbohm
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 16:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself. ~ Theodore Parker
 * 3 Zarbon 05:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. ~ Theodore Parker
 * 3 because although the easy way may not be the way of truth, it is the course which many have taken. Zarbon 05:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? ~ Stephen Fry
 * 2 Zarbon 05:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. ~ Jorge Luis Borges (DoB)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

A Chinese prose writer has observed that the unicorn, because of its own anomaly, will pass unnoticed. Our eyes see what they are accustomed to seeing. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The impossibility of penetrating the divine pattern of the universe cannot stop us from planning human patterns, even though we are conscious they are not definitive. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us. … Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

There is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 (strongly leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The time for your labor has been granted. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Saxo Grammaticus wrote with justification in his Gesta Danorum: "The men of Thule are very fond of learning and of recording the history of all peoples and they are equally pleased to reveal the excellences of others or of themselves." Not the day when the Saxon said the words, but the day when an enemy perpetuated them, was the historic date. A date that is a prophecy of something still in the future: the day when races and nations will be cast into oblivion, and the solidarity of all mankind will be established. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Poetry is not the books in the library. . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

A poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 (strongly leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Universal history is the history of a few metaphors. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Life itself is a quotation. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. It is also venturesome to think that of all these illustrious coordinations, one of them — at least in an infinitesimal way — does not resemble the universe a bit more than the others. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC) (It would seem that at moment of confession, the actor becomes both actor and witness. Why ought the two be mutually exclusive?)

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

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title: August 24


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September 24

September 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ William Penn
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain — Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896, and correlation to the current period of powerful storms)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ Horace Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ John Brunner (born 24 September 1934)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki — this was originally proposed and selected as a statement cited to Horace Walpole — but this has since been determined to be a misattribution which began as early as the 1930s. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the Russo-Ukrainian War.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * used 21 December 2008, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. ~ John Marshall
 * 2 Zarbon 04:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~ John Brunner (born September 24, 1934)
 * 3.5 ~ Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) * 3 Ningauble 15:57, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 – Misattributed: this is a close paraphrase of Dean Inge ~ Ningauble 12:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is … If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty. ~ John Marshall
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) An important quote, but maybe not for this context

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ~ Horace Walpole
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope. ~ John Brunner
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:49, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

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October 24

October 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~ Dorothy Thompson

 * 2005
 * The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. ~ Horace Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, “God and the imagination are one,” I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God. ~ Denise Levertov (born 24 October 1923)
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2007
 * Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don't know the secret wrote the line. …   I love them for finding what I can't find,  and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that  a thousand times, till death finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines  in other happenings.  ~ Denise Levertov ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed. ~ Stephen Covey
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. ~ Stephen Covey
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important. ~ Stephen Covey
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It was no longer sounds only that made the music: he spoke, and as no tree listens I listened, and language came into my roots out of the earth, into my bark out of the air, into the pores of my greenest shoots gently as dew and there was no word he sang but I knew its meaning. ~ Denise Levertov ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Fys

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way ~ Adrian Mitchell
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor! ~ Luciano Berio
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

$$\textstyle\frac{3}{4}$$ of world problems and bewilderment would be lost if we understood our opponents. ~ Stephen Covey
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:22, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ~ Adrian Mitchell
 * 3 Kalki 06:04, 18 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accounatability — can flourish. ~ Stephen Covey
 * 3 Kalki 06:04, 18 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:22, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:20, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

title: October 24


text:
November 24

November 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ Washington Irving
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (published 24 November 1859)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * Only the brave know how to forgive … A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ Laurence Sterne (born 24 November 1713)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ~ Laurence Sterne
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others. No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for the US Thanksgiving Day of 2016

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there. ~ Freddie Mercury in an interview, died that day
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ~ Laurence Sterne
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

A war is not lost until you consider it lost. ~ Erich von Manstein (born November 24)
 * 3 because victory and loss are but a perspective and a tank commander knows that a war is not lost until it is truly considered lost. Zarbon 04:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 3 because bravery alone is not enough. Zarbon 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 3 because those who train, succeed. Zarbon 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Win with ability, not with numbers. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 3 because quality devours quantity. Zarbon 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 3 Zarbon 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 3 because it is the deciding factor in war, to kill or be killed. Zarbon 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires. ~ Alexander Suvorov
 * 4 because every minute counts in the heat of battle. Zarbon 15:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. ~ Dale Carnegie
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use? ~ Dale Carnegie
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. ~ Claus Moser, Baron Moser
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. ~ Arundhati Roy
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. ~ Arundhati Roy
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. ~ Arundhati Roy
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 Antiquary 14:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. ~ Zachary Taylor
 * 2 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish—nothing to serve but my country. ~ Zachary Taylor
 * 3 Zarbon 23:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

No one rejoices in blessedness, because he has controlled his lusts, but, contrariwise, his power of controlling his lusts arises from this blessedness itself. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The more reality or being a thing has, the greater the number of its attributes. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 23 November 2019 (UTC), but with a lean to 2, as I initially chose this in 2019, but then preferred a variant translation of it — retaining this here for possible use in future years. 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 23 November 2019 (UTC) /// 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them. ~ Baruch Spinoza
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 24 November 2022 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

title: November 24


text:
December 24

December 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 *  I danced in the morning When the world was begun, And I danced in the moon And the stars and the sun, And I came down from heaven And I danced on the earth, At Bethlehem I had my birth. Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he. ~ Sydney Carter ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 *  'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. ~ "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ John Muir
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. ~ Francis Pharcellus Church in "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. ~ John Muir (Date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2009
 * People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~ Norman Vincent Peale (Date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar. ~ Matthew Arnold ~ (born December 24, 1822)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry. ~ Matthew Arnold
 * The last sentence proposed by InvisibleSun, extension proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki, for last night of Hanukkah 2014

 * 2015

 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo flight, the Earthrise photograph, and of this message, in 2018.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper — metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember. ~ Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 20:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

So listen to them, heed them: Who never touch the earth, can never be in heaven. ~ Adam Mickiewicz
 * 2 Zarbon 06:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. ~ Georges Guynemer
 * 2 Zarbon 06:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

So you're tired of living Feel like you might give in Well don't. It's not your time ~ Tomas Kalnoky
 * 4 Zarbon 06:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

So tell me: how long do you think you can go before you lose it all? Before they call you bluff and watch you fall? I don't know, but I'd like to think I had control At some point, but I let it go and lost my soul ~ Tomas Kalnoky
 * 2 Zarbon 06:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... Benjamin Rush (dob O.S.)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * May be moved to January 4th if that is more suitable.
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4, for either date.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights. Benjamin Rush
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * May be moved to January 4th if that is more suitable.
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb. ~ Fritz Leiber (dob)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset? ~ Fritz Leiber
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

In the wake of a Big Change, cultures and individuals are transposed, it’s true, yet in the main they continue much as they were, except for the usual scattering of unfortunate but statistically meaningless accidents. ~ Fritz Leiber
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”. ~ Fritz Leiber
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. - Bess Streeter Aldrich
 * 3--Nvvchar (talk) 03:32, 14 December 2014 (UTC)Tending towards 4
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:07, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

title: December 24


text:
January 25

January 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ~ Isaac Newton on his intellectual debt to those who preceded him.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. ~ Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf (born 25 January 1882)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. ~ W. Somerset Maugham (born 25 January 1874)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
 * proposed by Jeff Q

 * 2009
 * The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. ~ Virginia Woolf
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us An' ev'n Devotion. ~ Robert Burns ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in. ~ Virginia Woolf
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
 * partially proposed by InvisibleSun, extension proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * partially proposed by InvisibleSun, extension for context proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

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User:Crisu

This userpage adapted from the English Wikipedia.

User pages can be fun. Like all those times you imagined yourself to be so important, you'd have your own entry in an encyclopedia. Or for those dictionary jokes like "miserable failure - n. see George W. Bush". It's now possible somewhat to make those jokes a reality.

Etymology
This name was created by selecting letters in a semi-random process from road-side advertisements while riding in the passenger seat of a car one summer day. The name was originally used for a personal, fan-made character for the Squaresoft RPG Chrono Trigger (Crisu was Crono's descendant living in 1999 A.D. who could harness the power of the stars). It has since become my own preferred alias on the Internet.

My character's full name is Crisu Clef Skeer. The middle name Clef was recently added when my character image was decided to be Guru Clef from Magic Knight Rayearth. Skeer is another semi-random creation just like Crisu, again derived from billboard advertisements.

Misinterpretations

 * Crisco
 * Circus Skater
 * Crisis Seeker

Wikipedia Interests

 * Any Cardcaptor Sakura article
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender articles
 * Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar articles
 * Mississippi State University articles
 * Video game|-related articles
 * The Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi article
 * Other Cartoon Network-related articles
 * Reverting vandalism by unregistered users

Favorites List

 * Lorem Ipsum

Pet Peeves

 * Bad grammar. I'm as picky as Strong Bad sometimes.
 * Internet annoyances. Edit wars included.
 * Poor organization in databases and file cabinets.
 * Not crushing boxes before throwing them in the trash.
 * Leaving water running for excessive amounts of time.
 * Crossing the street without first looking both ways for traffic.
 * Disney sequels.
 * Tables with random crumbs or eraser shreddings on them.

Personal Info

 * Name: Harry L.
 * Heritage: Vietnamese
 * Birthdate: April 1985, Aries
 * Citizenship: American
 * Residence: Mississippi
 * Major: Computer Engineering
 * Minor: Mathematics, Japanese|
 * Musical instrument: violin
 * "Talent": Dance Dance Revolution

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Robert A. Taft

Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he cosponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work states and regulated other labor practices. In foreign policy, he was an isolationist who initially supported U.S. neutrality in World War II, and later opposed U.S. entry into NATO and the Korean War.

Quotes

 * About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret
 * Profiles in Courage, Kennedy, p. 191.

 * As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government … too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.
 * Speech at the Executive Club of Chicago, December 19, 1941

Quotes about Taft

 * This is a quality that has appeared often enough in American history — and outside America as well. Senators like Ted Kennedy have been prominent before, bearing names like Henry Clay or Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey. Governors like New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller or Alabama Democrat George Wallace. A Congressman like Jack Kemp. Non-office holders like Martin Luther King in the United States or Mohandas Gandhi in India or Nelson Mandela in South Africa (who later became president of his country) can, through sheer force of personality, come to dominate the political scene of the day without ever bearing a single official title.
 * Jeffrey Lord in Is Sarah Palin the Next Ted Kennedy? (1 September 2009)

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Revenge of the Nerds

Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 film about a group of bullied outcasts and misfits who resolve to fight back for their peace and self respect.
 * Directed by Jeff Kanew. Written by Jeff Buhai.

They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! Their time has come! taglines

Dudley "Booger" Dawson

 * We've got bush! We've got bush!

Lamar Latrelle

 * [singing] Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands. We are Lambda Lambda Lambda and Omega Mu. We come here on stage tonight to do our show for you. We got a rocking rhythm and a hi-tech sound that will make you move your body down to the ground. We got Poindexter on the violin, and Lewis and Gilbert will be joining in. We got Booger Presley on the mean guitar and a rap by little ol' me Lamar. We got Takashi beating on his gong, the boys and the Mu's are clapping along. And just when you thought, ya seen it all, along comes a Lambda four foot tall. So Wormser come on out here on the floor, so we can move our bodies, like never before. Break!

Coach Harris

 * You know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down upon you and had one wish: "Someday my son will grow up to be a man". Well look at you now; you just got your asses whipped, by a bunch of goddamn nerds. [removes hat and throws it against wall] NERDS!! Well, if I were you I would do something about it. I would get up and redeem myself in the eyes of my father, my Maker, and my coach!

Dialogue

 * Lewis: There's 6,127 students at Adams, 58% of which are girls.
 * Gilbert: So?
 * Lewis: So, that's 7,107.32 boobs.
 * [Lewis, Gilbert and Mr. Skolnick all let out guttural laughs]
 * Mr. Skolnick: Ah, you college men are all alike; all you think about is getting laid! I almost wish I was enrolling in school with you guys!

 * Stan: Must have been a problem with the electrical wiring.
 * Dean Ulich: That is not what the fire department thinks, Stan.
 * Coach Harris: Dean Ulich, if my boys say it was faulty wiring, we have to believe them. Dean, I got a big game coming up and I don't want their minds to be worried about where they will sleep.
 * Dean Ulich: Well, they should have thought of that before they burned their house down.
 * Coach Harris: Hey, what's done is done. Now where?
 * Stan: How about the freshmen dorm?
 * Dean Ulich: What about the students currently residing there?
 * [Freshman dorm. Alpha Betas are ready to storm building]
 * Stan: OK guys, thanks to "faulty wiring" we have no place to stay.
 * Alpha Betas: [in unison] Yeah!
 * Stan: And those freshmen, freshmen, are sitting pretty in there!
 * Alpha Betas: [in unison] Right!
 * Stan: So as of this moment, the freshmen dorm is ours. Any room you want, take it! Break!
 * [Alpha Betas storm into freshmen dormitory and begin tearing up place]
 * Ogre: Don't come back!
 * [Student is hurled through window]
 * Ogre: There is your roommate, pal!
 * [Freshmen, to include Lewis and Gilbert, are ushered out of freshmen dorm. Alpha Betas toss their personal possessions out the window in jeering chants]
 * Dean Ulich: [through bullhorn] If I may have everyone's attention please, we can make this move as easy as possible...
 * [Coach Harris yanks bullhorn from Dean Ulich]
 * Coach Harris: [through bullhorn] Now listen up men! I am going to see that each and every one of you is taken care of. You will be provided with the best possible food and accommodations. Now, go, go, go!

 * [Harold Wormser, a child, is being dropped off at college by his parents]
 * Wormser: But Mom, I do not want to go to college, I want to be around people my own age.
 * Wormser's Mom: Harold, you have a special gift and need college to develop it. And you will be around people your age, when you are older!
 * Wormser: But to live in a gym? Come on, it is like we are refugees from a war!

 * [Booger is teaching Takashi poker]
 * Takashi: I think I've got a frush.
 * Booger: What the fuck's a frush?
 * Takashi: [showing his royal flush] A *frush*.
 * Booger: [showing his cards] Oh, well I've got two sevens and two sevens beats a frush.
 * Takashi: Oh, thank you.

 * Gilbert: I met a girl.
 * Lewis: Gilbert, that is wonderful!
 * Booger: Big deal. Did you get in her pants?
 * Gilbert: She's not that kind of girl, Booger.
 * Booger: Why? Does she have a penis?

 * Stan: What are you looking at, nerd?
 * Booger: I thought I was looking at my mother's old douche bag, but that's in Ohio.

 * Lewis: Didn't I tell you we would find a nice place?
 * Gilbert: Yes, this is way better than the dorm.
 * [Brick is hurled though window as the sound of a motorcycle speeding away can be heard]
 * Booger: What was that?
 * Gilbert: It reads: "NERDS GET OUT!"
 * Takashi: What is a nerd?
 * Gilbert: We are.

 * Policeman: I do not know what this world is coming to. Motions to a man in a trenchcoat See that man over there. We arrested him for mopery.
 * Gilbert: What is that?
 * Policeman: Mopery is exposing yourself to a blind person. I am sorry about your window, fellas, but regretfully it is out of our jurisdiction. This reeks of a campus prank and there is only one organization that can adjudicate on such matters.
 * Lewis: What is that?
 * Policeman: [disdainful tone] The Greek Council.
 * [Greek Council chambers. Fraternity leaders are seated and Ogre is the sergeant-at-arms]
 * Dean Ulich: Our next issue on the agenda, new membership. Earl, will you please admit the petitioners?
 * [Earl opens door and motions for the nerds to enter]
 * Ogre: Kneel, gentlemen.
 * [Nerds kneel]
 * Dean Ulich: You are the men who wish to form a fraternity?
 * Lewis: Yes, we are.
 * [Greek Council disapproves unanimously]
 * Stan: Well, gentlemen, I regret to inform to you that your application has been denied.
 * [Nerds express outrage at instant disapproval, but Dean Ulich silences them]
 * Dean Ulich: I am afraid he is right. According to our rules you require a national fraternity as your sponsor.
 * Gilbert: So all we need to do is get a sponsor and we are in?
 * Stan: Right, so we will see you in about...twenty years!

 * [Nerds attempts to get a fraternity to sponsor them. They deal with multiple rejection letters]
 * Gilbert: [reading a letter] Dear Gentlemen, Thank you for your interest in Kappa Alpha. We regret to inform you that we have no interest in sponsoring you at Adams. In the future we recommend you not include a group photo.
 * Gilbert: That is twenty-seven rejections so far. Did we send photos of us to all the fraternities?
 * Lamar: Yes. All except...Lambda Lambda Lambda.
 * Lewis: Hey guys! I got an acceptance letter! There is a fraternity that will consider us!
 * Gilbert and Lamar: Lambda Lambda Lambda!

 * [Alpha Betas have set up a kissing booth for the Greek Games]
 * Stan: This idea is great. Look at how many ticket sales we are bringing in.
 * Burke: The nerds are selling over 2,000. People are lining up to buy two, maybe three!
 * Stan: Ogre, go get a pie. See what they are up to.
 * [A man just bought a pie from the nerds; Ogre shoves him and steals the pie]
 * Ogre: Thanks! Get your own.
 * Man: Hey!
 * [Ogre wolfs down his ill-gotten pie]
 * Stan: Well, how is it? Good, great?
 * Ogre: OK.
 * Burke: OK?! Then how come they are selling so damn many?!
 * Ogre: [points] That's why!
 * [Cut to Lambda Lambda Lambda selling pies]
 * Takashi: Thank you, eat a pie for charity!
 * [One member stamps pie dish with a nude pic from the panty raid, another adorns it with whipped cream. Cut to Stan who sees a picture of Betty]
 * Stan: That is my Pi!

 * Betty: [blissfully, after sex] Oh, Stan. You were wonderful. You did things to me you've never done before.
 * [Lewis takes off his mask]
 * Betty: [gasps] Ahhh! You're that nerd!
 * Lewis: Yeah.
 * Betty: Oh, you were wonderful. Are all nerds as good as you?
 * Lewis: Yes.
 * Betty: How come?
 * Lewis: 'Cause all jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex.

 * Gilbert: I just wanted to say that I'm a nerd, and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we've been laughed at and made to feel inferior. And tonight, those bastards, they trashed our house. Why? Because we're smart? Because we look different? Well, we're not. I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty proud of it.
 * Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you. I know there's alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.
 * Gilbert: Just join us cause uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

 * [Last lines of film]
 * Dean Ulich: You know, I am going to allow them to sleep in the Alpha Beta house until you guys repair all the damage you did to the Lambda Lambda Lambda house.
 * Stan: What about us?
 * Burke: Yeah, where are we gonna sleep?
 * Dean Ulich: You are jocks. Go sleep in the gym.

Taglines

 * They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! Their time has come!
 * It's time for the odd to get even!
 * Their time has come!
 * They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! Their time has come!
 * The time has come for REVENGE OF THE NERDS
 * Let the battle begin!
 * From a preview trailer as the 20th Century Fox introduction plays: Star Wars. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sound of Music: 20th Century Fox has had a long and proud tradition of showing uplifting movies about facing up to prevailing odds. Now in this manner, we are pleased to present another timeless film to this lineup: Revenge of the Nerds!

Cast

 * Curtis Armstrong — Dudley "Booger" Dawson
 * Timothy Busfield — Arnold Poindexter
 * Robert Carradine — Louis Skolnick
 * Andrew Cassese — Harold Wormser
 * James Cromwell — Mr. Skolnick
 * Anthony Edwards — Gilbert Lowell
 * Donald Gibb — Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski
 * Ted McGinley — Stan Gable
 * John Goodman — Coach Harris
 * Michelle Meyrink — Judy
 * Julia Montgomery — Betty Childs
 * Matt Salinger — Danny Burke
 * Larry B. Scott — Lamar Latrell
 * Brian Tochi — Toshiro Takashi
 * David Wohl — Dean Ulich

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title: User talk:The angel cat