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January 8

January 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. ~ Stephen Hawking (born 8 January 1942)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ~ Baltasar Gracián (born 8 January 1601)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. ~ Gerry Spence
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, as a significant statement, prior to recent historical events as he engaged in his role in the official counting of the electoral votes by the US Congress.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * We are defined by how we use our power. ~ Gerry Spence
 * used 4 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. ~ Karl Brandt (born January 8)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: 1947 Trial Documents
 * 1 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward ZERO; there is very little chance I see of so profoundly STUPID a statement ever being an appropriate choice for QOTD.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image. ~ Elvis Presley
 * 3 Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, though I consider it a somewhat flawed and prejudicial statement — truth can escape any prison — and any form of confinement — in ways that seem incredible to the dull and dimwitted, and which seem impossible to the oblivious.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 and leaning toward a 4. Zarbon 06:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish. As a subtle suggestion, it is the means by which we aid another. As a warning, it steers us from danger. As exposition, it teaches. As an expression of creativity, it is the gift of ourselves. As a protest, it struggles for justice. As a reasoned dialogue, it resolves disputes. As an assertion of self, it engenders respect. As an entreaty of love, it expresses our devotion. As a plea, it generates mercy. As charismatic oration it moves multitudes and changes history. We must argue — to help, to warn, to lead, to love, to create, to learn, to enjoy justice — to be. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Not believing others implies that you yourself are deceitful. The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Readiness is the mother of luck. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Do something well, and that is quickly enough. ~ Baltasar Gracián
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. ~ A. J. Muste
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way. ~ A. J. Muste
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ~ Wilkie Collins, Armadale (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them. ~ Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much. ~ Terry Brooks, The Elf Queen Of Shannara
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore. ~ Terry Brooks, The Elf Queen Of Shannara
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two. ~ Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. ~ Terry Brooks, A Knight of the Word
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves. ~ Terry Brooks, The Tangle Box
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Many of us suspect that all of this - all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe - is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end. ~ In commemoration of the 8 January 1942 birth of Stephen Hawking (a notable proponent of the multiverse idea), from the first episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 19:55, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is THE quote that made me want to watch all of the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes. After hearing this for the first time my mind just melted and I was left happily speechless. I'd love to see it as a quote of the day.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 7 January 2017 (UTC) I do like the quote, and though the connection to the date is somewhat tenuous, I could rank it 3 in the future, but perhaps expanded slightly for context.

title: January 8


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February 8

February 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ Martin Buber (born 8 February 1878)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. ~ John Ruskin (born 8 February 1819)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good. ~ Peter Kropotkin, died 8 February 1921.
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2008
 * The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. ~ John Ruskin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. ~ Jules Verne, born 8 February 1828.
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2010
 * Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ~ John Ruskin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. ~ John Ruskin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. ~ John Ruskin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. ~ Enoch Powell, died 8 February 1998.
 * 4. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The good Samaritan had compassion. If two good Samaritans had compassion, that would still be individual compassion, not collective compassion. If the good Samaritan had been obliged by decree of the Roman Emperor to assist the traveller, that would not be compassion at all, because it would be done under obligation. ~ Enoch Powell.
 * 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ~ John Ruskin, born 8 February 1819.
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 22:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

When we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a thing, we get tired of hearing the same tale told over and over again, and stopping always at the same point — we want a new story presently, a newer and better one — and the picture of the day, and novel of the day, become as ephemeral as the coiffure or the bonnet of the day. Now this spirit is wholly adverse to the existence of any lovely art. If you mean to throw it aside to-morrow, you can never have it to-day. ~ John Ruskin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth. ~ Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC) with lean toward 3.

Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. ~ Samuel Butler
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:30, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC) slightly prefer this to the alternate translation: "All real life is meeting."

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 14:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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March 8

March 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ J. D. Salinger
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (born 8 March 1841)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (born 8 March 1841)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ~ Kenneth Grahame (born March 8, 1859)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh enrichment. ~ Johannes Kepler
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives. ~ Neil Postman
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to that to which is being judged. People and things are processes. Judgements convert them into fixed states. This is one reason that judgements are often self-fulfilling. ~ Neil Postman
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki for International Women's Day 2018.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, as recent remarks on responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * International Women's Day
 * DOB: Kenneth Grahame · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · Johannes Kepler · Neil Postman

The whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it! ~ The Dragon in "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ~ Johannes Kepler (first discovered his third law of planetary motion on this day)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) Possibly best reserved for another day.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. ~ Alan Hovhaness
 * 2 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It's gotten worse and worse, somehow, because physical science has given us more and more terrible deadly weapons, and the human spirit has been destroyed in so many cases, so what's the use of having the most powerful country in the world if we have killed the soul. It's of no use. ~ Alan Hovhaness
 * 3 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) While the advancement of science may have provided the means for the weapons, it is man who made them. The argument against science is misplaced.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * 3 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would prefer an extended version which has been sourced:
 * A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. … constantly varying the passions, he will barely quiet one before he rouses another. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

 * – (un-sourced) Ningauble 21:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) Eugenics is possibly one of the darkest sciences man has ever created. Heed should be paid to the quotes that bracket this one.

Of writing that is filled with mechanical and grammatical error, as compared with writing that conforms to the rules of standard edited English. Surely, we do not want to say that there is a necessary correlation between mechanical and editorial accuracy and intellectual substance. There are many books that are mechanically faultless but which contain untrue, unclear, or even nonsensical ideas. Carefully edited writing tells us, not that the writer speaks truly, but that he or she grasps... the manner in which knowledge is usually expressed. The most devastating argument against a paper that is marred by grammatical and rhetorical error is that the writer does not understand the subject. ~ Neil Postman
 * 2 but rather long. Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2. Would start at "There are many..." InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. ~ Neil Postman
 * 3 Kalki 07:44, 7 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 15:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

People come — they stay for a while, they flourish, they build — and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

The most modest and retiring dragon in the world, if he's as big as four cart-horses and covered with blue scales, cannot keep altogether out of the public view. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

This is an evil world, and sometimes I begin to think that all the wickedness in it is not entirely bottled up inside the dragons... ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I want to put it right. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world. ~ Kenneth Grahame 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 8 March 2024 (UTC) * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:02, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:02, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:02, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

title: March 8


text:
April 8

April 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ Zhuang Zi
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ Gautama Buddha
 * selected by Kalki; 8 April is Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival), the fixed-date celebration of Buddha's Birthday in Japan.

 * 2006
 * Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ Gautama Buddha
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Blessed are the poor in spirit:   for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn:    for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek:    for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:    for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful:    for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart:    for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers:    for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) ~ (for Easter Sunday 2007 in both the Gregorian calendar and Eastern Orthodox reckonings)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows a dream. ~ Yip Harburg ~ (born 8 April 1896)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. ~ Yip Harburg ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ Kofi Annan (born 8 April 1938)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When o’er the nursing sod, The shadows broke and soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God. ~ Langdon Smith ~ (died 8 April 1908)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. ~ Jesus
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

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

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018 :

 * proposed by Jeff Q as a quote of Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"; first broadcast 8 April 1996

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old. In the early beginnings of the 21st century — a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable — this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted. ~ Kofi Annan ~
 * used 11 September 2010, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Glory—once achieved, what is it worth? ~ Emile Cioran
 * 4 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) A rather simplistic and presumptive rhetorical question — the worth of any form of glory is in how it was obtained, among whom it is manifest, and how it is used.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) All things matter to those with a profound sense of Eternity.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) but this needs context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3. I have corrected the misquote here and on the Cioran page by changing "rest" to "wrest" (confirmed by Google Book Search). - InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 April 2024 (UTC); in regard to the sun and the moon meeting above many invoked, evoked and evocative "yon hills" during the total eclipse of the sun on this date.

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May 8

May 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon (born 8 May 1937)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * While in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a prima facie theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born 8 May 1899)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * And, oh! what beautiful years were these When our hearts clung each to each; When life was filled and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech. Thus life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change.   ~ Langdon Smith ~ (In honor of our reaching a myriad of articles at Wikiquote, a selection from the official "10,000th article".)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born 8 May 1899)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become... ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. ~ Friedrich Hayek
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? ~ Friedrich Hayek
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment. … The only consolation he drew from the present chaos was that his theory managed to explain it. ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for Mother's Day observance in USA (8 May 2016)

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Feast day of Julian of Norwich in Anglican and Lutheran traditions.
 * DOB: David Attenborough · Friedrich Hayek · Thomas Pynchon · Harry S. Truman · Edmund Wilson

The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. ~ Friedrich Hayek (born May 8)
 * 3 because the more the state controls one's fate, the less one is able to control one's own fate. Zarbon 04:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ~ Harry S. Truman (born May 8, 1884)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because you can have a both separately as well. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. ~ Harry S. Truman
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because that's not the only new thing. Sorry, don't agree with this. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. ~ David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because this seems like a personal rant rather than a quote... Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ~ Thomas Pynchon
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 because sometimes the two are intertwined. Zarbon 05:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ~ Harry S. Truman
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation. ~ Joe Biden
 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle (talk) 02:01, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:57, 7 May 2022 (UTC), but there is no clear relationship to this date.

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June 8

June 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ~ Lin Yutang
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. ~ Steve Jobs (on the plans for Apple Computer to begin using Intel processors in its Macintosh computers)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club. ~ John W. Campbell (born 8 June 1910)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Our civil laws will never be supple enough to fit the immense and changing variety of facts. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality? ~ Scott Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recent tragedies.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)
 * 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 This isn't really unique to architecture. You can say the same about any art form. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)
 * 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (born 8 June 1867)
 * 3 Kalki 04:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar (born June 8, 1903)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 I don't really get this. Is she criticizing literature, or just praising speech by comparison? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
 * 3 Kalki 23:11, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 4 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:36, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms. ~ Scott Adams
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 23:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:37, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 00:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

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July 8

July 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Why is all around us here as if some lesser god had made the world, but had not force to shape it as he would, till the High God behold it from beyond, and enter it, and make it beautiful? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, but that these eyes of men are dense and dim, and have not power to see it as it is: perchance, because we see not to the close... ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (born 8 July 1621)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (born 8 July 1926)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more. ~ Käthe Kollwitz (born July 8, 1867)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions...

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory. ~ Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, published that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:42, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:38 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 08:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

And on the pedestal these words appear:  "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"  Nothing beside remains: round the decay  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,  The lone and level sands stretch far away. - (Ozymandias of Egypt -1818) Percy Bysshe Shelley died this day
 * 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:38 (UTC)
 * 0. This quotation was already used on August 4, 2005. InvisibleSun 08:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. ~ Joseph Chamberlain
 * 3 Zarbon 15:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:29, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers. ~ John D. Rockefeller
 * 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 02:29, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

 * We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo 13:59, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

 * 2 Quite important in his thought. Nemo 13:59, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:Frogs4ever

~ Kalki 04:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Charish

~ Kalki 04:21, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Political Mind. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Political Mind~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:32, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Political Mind~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:MiG

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title: User talk:MiG


text:
User talk:LisaMarie~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called LisaMarie. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name LisaMarie~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:LisaMarie~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Dude902

Welcome
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title: User talk:Dude902


text:
User talk:Jesstiger

Welcome
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title: User talk:Jesstiger


text:
User talk:Not a slave~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Not a slave. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Not a slave~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:32, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Not a slave~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Prairiemist

Welcome
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title: User talk:Prairiemist


text:
User talk:BcGremlin

Welcome
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title: User talk:BcGremlin


text:
User talk:Billy Bishop~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Billy Bishop. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Billy Bishop~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Billy Bishop~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Trad Redav

Welcome
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title: User talk:Trad Redav


text:
User talk:Ccdesan

Welcome
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title: User talk:Ccdesan