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April 4

April 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth... When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world That is when, and only when We come to it. ~ Maya Angelou (born 4 April 1928)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ Sir Francis Drake (knighted 4 April 1581)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ~ Aeschylus ~ (Quoted, in variant form, by Robert F. Kennedy in a speech, 4 April 1968, after learning of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which occurred that day.)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * All we are saying is give peace a chance. ~ John Lennon (50th anniversary of the first use of what became the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo, and later the "Peace symbol" in a march by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 4 April 1958.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men. ~ Black Elk
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. ~ Yeshua of Galilee (Jesus Christ) ~ For Easter Sunday 2010, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calculations
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony. ~ Isidore of Seville
 * 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 Kalki regarding the 50th anniversary of MLK's death, and the 60th anniversary of the first use of the ☮ Peace sign, in a CND march on this date in 1958.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, for Easter Sunday of this year.

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the anniversary of MLK's death, and a peace quote for anniversary of CND "Peace symbol".

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ Maya Angelou
 * used 31 May 2004, selected by Kalki

 * You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ Maya Angelou
 * used 23 October 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Also for this day have been included suggestions focusing on the theme of Peace, made to commemorate the first public use of what became the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo, and later one of the most recognized of the "Peace symbols" in a march by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 4 April 1958.)

Suggestions

 * Blue Pacific.svg Quotes focusing on the theme of Peace to commemorate the first public use of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo, in a march by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (4 April 1958). It afterwards became one of the most widely recognized "Peace symbols"''', during the 1960s. Blue Pacific.svg
 * DOB: Maya Angelou · Benjamin Peirce · NATO · Andrei Tarkovsky · Isoroku Yamamoto · Knighted : Francis Drake (DOB unknown) · DOD : Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated on this date in 1968.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack. ~ Isoroku Yamamoto (born April 4)
 * 3 because it is better to face your enemy head on rather than strike them behind their back. Beautiful quotation. Zarbon 05:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or perhaps a 4, eventually.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What! let us show ourselves to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. ~ Sir Francis Drake
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~ Maya Angelou
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

People will forget what you said People will forget what you did But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou ~
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ~ Andre Gide
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 although I personally don't think it's "easy" to stir a man's passion for combat. That is a gift in and of itself. A true military tactician would never admit to that as it takes much coordination and practice to convince men to fight with honor. Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~ Moshe Dayan
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 but relation to date? Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ~ Isaiah, II:4
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward an eventual 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 but relation to date? Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens — when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will — and determination — to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 3 Kalki 04:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4, as a Peace quote and date of death.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. ~ Isidore of Seville
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. ~ Marguerite Duras
 * 3 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. ~ Ambrose
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC) but would trim off "Accordingly"
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. ~ Ambrose
 * 4 Zarbon 03:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 2 (death remains burdensome, though fear of death can be more so.)
 * But that's exactly what the quote is saying. It's saying that fear of death is oftentimes worse than death itself. - Zarbon 22:16, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The statement as phrased states "it is not" burdensome — but I don't accept that this is the case for death any more than it is for ignorance or confusion, no matter how little fear one might have of either them or of death. ~ Kalki 23:58, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. ~ Benjamin Peirce (born 4 April 1809)
 * 3 Kalki 11:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants. ~ Isoroku Yamamoto
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:06, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 04:26, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. I actually was inclined to use this today, and motivated to devise a few layouts for it and add more by Tarkovsky, some of which I liked better, but in the end preferred to shift my preferences to one by Maya Angelou.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 15:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 4 Lisa (talk) 08:15, 31 March 2021 (UTC) very powerful quote
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:45, 3 April 2021 (UTC), if sourced, — but this currently needs sourcing.

title: April 4


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May 4

May 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ eden ahbez
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann (born 4 May 1796)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ~ T. H. Huxley (born 4 May 1825)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. ~ T. H. Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ~ Horace Mann (born May 4)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ~ Horace Mann
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Veracity is the heart of morality. ~ T. H. Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of them is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. ~ Jane Jacobs (born 4 May 1916)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. ~ Jane Jacobs (born 4 May 1916)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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title: May 4


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June 4

June 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ Stevie Wonder
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ~ Socrates
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables
 * proposed by Kalki earliest recorded solar eclipse (disputed), in China, 4 June 780 BC.

 * 2007
 * I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. ~ Robert Fulghum ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. And so it has been to this day. ~ Robert Fulghum
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations. ~ Robert Fulghum
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK. ~ Robert Fulghum
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Zarbon
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

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 * 2017

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 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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

 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:01, 3 June 2015 (UTC) (but partly used previously)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:27, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:01, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:27, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

- Anniversary of the start of The Battle of Midway.
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 12:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

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July 4

July 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * "...for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." ~ closing lines of The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States Of America written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, and approved as an official document of united will and determination, July 4, 1776.
 * selected by Kalkifuckkk you demet putang ina nio papatayin q keong dalawa

 * 2005
 * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ United States Declaration of Independence
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2006
 * It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 4 July 1804)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ~ Thomas Jefferson in the US Declaration of Independence
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki (First version of the story of Alice first told upon 4 July 1862, and first published on 4 July 1865)
 * proposed by Kalki (First version of the story of Alice first told upon 4 July 1862, and first published on 4 July 1865)

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki (First version of the story of Alice first told upon 4 July 1862, and first published on 4 July 1865)

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, for Hawthorne's birthday, and reference to a primary founder of the first American democratic republic on it's Independence Day.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2023

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * used 16 March 2009, proposed by Kalki

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
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power." ~ J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 (United States independence)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:25, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (I'm a bit uncomfortable with this one on this particular day.)
 * 1 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:48 (UTC)
 * 1 Aphaia 3 July 2005 02:27 (UTC) not only problematic, but a bit long.
 * 1 Jeff Q (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC). I love this quote even more than last year, but it still sounds too partisan for a good QotD.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:44, 2 July 2014 (UTC) 3 Kalki 21:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility. ~ Lionel Trilling (born July 4, 1905)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 17:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself — he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life. ~ Lionel Trilling
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 00:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. ~ Dinesh D'Souza
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 18:34, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3.25. – Illegitimate Barrister, 03:41, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 4 July 2017 (UTC) — but lacks clear relation to the date.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 4 July 2017 (UTC) — but lacks clear relation to the date.

title: July 4


text:
August 4

August 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I can't die. It would ruin my image. ~ Jack La Lanne
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * We are defined by how we use our power. ~ Gerry Spence
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * "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. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~ (born 4 August 1792)
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2006
 * If you divide suffering and dross, you may Diminish till it is consumed away; If you divide pleasure and love and thought, Each part exceeds the whole; and we know not How much, while any yet remains unshared... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man’s estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together — unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction — towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * This is our time — to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can! ~ Barack Obama
 * used 6 November 2008; proposed by Kalki

 * There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. ~ Barack Obama
 * used 20 January 2009, proposed by Kalki

 * People ask me... "What do you still bring from Hawaii? How does it affect your character, how does it affect your politics?" I try to explain to them something about the Aloha Spirit. I try to explain to them this basic idea that we all have obligations to each other, that we're not alone, that if we see somebody who's in need we should help... that we look out for one another, that we deal with each other with courtesy and respect, and most importantly, that when you come from Hawaii, you start understanding that what's on the surface, what people look like — that doesn't determine who they are. And that the power and strength of diversity, the ability of people from everywhere … whether they're black or white, whether they're Japanese-Americans or Korean-Americans or Filipino-Americans or whatever they are, they are just Americans, that all of us can work together and all of us can join together to create a better country. And it's that spirit, that I'm absolutely convinced, is what America is looking for right now. ~ Barack Obama
 * used 21 August 2009, proposed by Kalki

 * On September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow — the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. ~ Barack Obama
 * used 11 September 2009, proposed by Zarbon

 * To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. ~ Barack Obama
 * used 20 January 2010, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Entitle us to the Liberty of proving the Truth of the Papers, which in the Information are called false, malicious, seditious and scandalous. ~ John Peter Zenger, acquitted 4 August 1735 of slander on the grounds that what he published was true.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 02:55, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:21, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:31, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I might eventually rank this a 3 or 4, but again attempting to gain favor for one of my favorites above.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
 * 3 Kalki 12:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:31, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. ~ Helen Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 eventually

...we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. ~ Helen Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 eventually

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. ~ Helen Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 or 4 eventually

When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink? ~ Queen Elizabeth
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face. ~ Queen Elizabeth
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. ~ Walter Pater
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 eventually

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced. ~ Walter Pater
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 eventually
 * 3 RynoRanger 18:36, 04 August 2021 (UTC) feels relevant to current days

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ~ Walter Pater
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 4 eventually

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ~ Walter Pater
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC) might rank this a 3 eventually

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war...That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. ~ Barack Obama
 * 4 because I completely agree with Obama here. I shortened the original verse in order to correspond with the initial message, the main message of the quote. Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) though inclined toward a 3 or even a 4 eventually.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' ~ Barack Obama
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

...it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. ~ Barack Obama
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Someone once said that every man is trying to either live up to his father's expectations or make up for his father's mistakes, and I suppose that may explain my particular malady as well as anything else. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 05:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I am a prisoner of my own biography: I can't help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of how generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 05:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

When Democrats rush up to me at events and insist that we live in the worst of political times, that a creeping fascism is closing its grip around our throats, I may mention the internment of Japanese Americans under FDR, the Alien and Sedition Acts under John Adams, or a hundred years of lynching under several dozen administrations as having been possibly worse, and suggest we all take a deep breath. When people at dinner parties ask me how I can possibly operate in the current political environment, with all the negative campaigning and personal attacks, I may mention Nelson Mandela, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or some guy in a Chinese or Egyptian prison somewhere. In truth, being called names is not such a bad deal. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 05:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or eventual 4.

We will need to understand just how we got to this place, this land of warring factions and tribal hatreds. And we will need to remind ourselves, despite all our differences, just how much we share: common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 05:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

War might be hell and still the right thing to do. Economies could collapse despite the best-laid plans. People could work hard all their lives and still lose everything. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 and leaning toward a 4 for this one. Zarbon 05:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 20:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4 eventually.

All the money in the world won't boost student achievement if parents make no effort to instill in their children the values of hard work and delayed gratification. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 20:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 20:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3 or even 4.

I was sorry to leave. Not simply because I had made so many new friends, but because in the faces of all the men and women I'd met I had recognized pieces of myself. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 20:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) very little context presented here; would require more information for clarity.

The blood of slaves reminds us that our pragmatism can sometimes be moral cowardice. Lincoln, and those buried at Gettysburg, remind us that we should pursue our own absolute truths only if we acknowledge that there may be a terrible price to pay. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 04:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

But deliberation alone could not provide the slave his freedom or cleanse America of its original sin. In the end, it was the sword that would sever his chains. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 04:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or eventual 4, but either trimmed of the initial "But" or extended for more context.

For in the end laws are just words on a page — words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 04:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or eventual 4, but either trimmed of the initial "For in the end" or extended for more context.

The very interconnectivity that increasingly binds the world together has empowered those who would tear that world down. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 01:55, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

No person, in any culture, likes to be bullied. No person likes living in fear because his or her ideas are different. Nobody likes being poor or hungry, and nobody likes to live under an economic system in which the fruits of his or her labor go perpetually unrewarded. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 01:55, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

I reminded the men in the audience that being a father meant more than fathering a child; that even those of us who were physically present in the home are often emotionally absent; that precisely because many of us didn't have fathers in the house we have to redouble our efforts to break the cycle; and that if we want to pass on high expectations to our children, we have to have higher expectations for ourselves. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Zarbon 01:55, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:44, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

America's faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, commonsense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

 * As much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other. In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

While America's revolutionary origins and republican form of government might make it sympathetic toward those seeking freedom elsewhere, America's early leaders cautioned against idealistic attempts to export our way of life; according to John Quincy Adams, America should not go "abroad in search of monsters to destroy" nor "become the dictatress of the world." Providence had changed America with the task of making a new world, not reforming the old; protected by an ocean and with the bounty of a continent, America could best serve the cause of freedom by concentrating on its own development, becoming a beacon of hope for other nations and people around the globe. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I love America too much, am too invested in what this country has become, too committed to its institutions, its beauty, and even its ugliness, to focus entirely on the circumstances of its birth. But neither can I brush aside the magnitude of the injustice done, or erase the ghosts of generations past, or ignore the open wound, the aching spirit, that ails this country still. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

The world must remember that it was not simply international institutions — not just treaties and declarations — that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this: The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. ~ Barack Obama
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:21, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

title: August 4


text:
September 4

September 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ~ William Shakespeare in The Winter's Tale
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ~ Federico Fellini
 * proposed by MosheZadka for the anniversary of the first transatlantic television broadcast (4 September 1951)

 * 2006
 * A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. ~ L. P. Jacks (originally attributed to François-René de Chateaubriand, born 4 September 1768, because of a widespread misattribution.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. ~ Mary Renault (born 4 September 1905)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * A degree of silence envelops Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged! Search the woods where Washington’s sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 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 day of Canonization of Mother Teresa

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * "Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving." — proposed by Ningauble; extended for context regarding transformations of the commons which Illich was addressing, by Kalki.

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ Ivan Illich
 * used 2 December 2005, selected by Kalki

 * The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ Ivan Illich
 * used 2 December 2006, proposed by Kalki

 * Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ Ivan Illich
 * used 2 December 2008, proposed by Kalki

 * I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ Ivan Illich
 * used 2 December 2009, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 because memories truly are a heavy burden to carry. Zarbon 15:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

One does not learn how to die by killing others. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 because even after killing others, one will find death surprising when it comes for them. Zarbon 15:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:30, 1 September 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Aristocracy has three successive ages, — the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 2 because the process of degeneration is well described here, ending magnificently with vanities. Zarbon 15:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend. ~ Bernard Kerik
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ~ Antonin Artaud
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ~ Antonin Artaud
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. ~ Antonin Artaud
 * 3 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. ~ Antonin Artaud
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ~ Antonin Artaud
 * 3 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Man, machine and nature should function in artistic harmony. ~ Fritz Todt
 * 3 Zarbon 05:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

And now you know — the rest of the story. ~ Paul Harvey (born 4 September 1918)
 * 2 Kalki 23:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC) but might rank this a 3 or even a 4 eventually.
 * 1 this lacks context for those who are unfamiliar. - Zarbon 17:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. ~ Paul Harvey (DoB)
 * 3 Ningauble 18:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This was already used, on 2 March 2009. ~ Kalki 19:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

It's difficult to be rigorous about whether a machine really 'knows', 'thinks', etc., because we're hard put to define these things. We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming. ~ John McCarthy (DoB)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 18:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Whenever we write an axiom, a critic can say that the axiom is true only in a certain context. With a little ingenuity the critic can usually devise a more general context in which the precise form of the axiom doesn't hold.... There simply isn't a most general context. ~ John McCarthy (DoB)
 * 2 Ningauble 18:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Schooling, which we engage in and which supposedly creates equal opportunities, has become the unique, never-before-attempted way of dividing the whole society into classes. Everybody knows at which level of his twelve or sixteen years of schooling he has dropped out, and in addition knows what price tag is attached to the higher schooling he has gotten. It's a history of degrading the majority of people. ~ Ivan Illich
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ~ Ivan Illich
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. ~ Ivan Illich
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The impending loss of spirit, of soul, of what I call atmosphere, could go unnoticed. Only persons who face one another in trust can allow its emergence. The bouquet of friendship varies with each breath, but when it is there it needs no name. ~ Ivan Illich
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I have been present at sieges, congresses, conclaves, at the restoration and demolition of thrones. I have made history, and been able to write it. … Within and alongside my age, perhaps without wishing or seeking to, I have exerted upon it a triple influence, religious, political and literary. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Washington and Bonaparte emerged from the womb of democracy: both of them born to liberty, the former remained faithful to her, the latter betrayed her. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, though might also be used on dates associated with either Washington or Napoleon.

New storms will arise; one can believe in calamities to come which will surpass the afflictions we have been overwhelmed by in the past; already, men are thinking of bandaging their old wounds to return to the battlefield. … No doubt there will be painful moments: the face of the world cannot change without suffering. But, once again, there will be no separate revolutions; simply the great revolution approaching its end. The scenes of tomorrow no longer concern me; they call for other artists: your turn, gentlemen! ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

How small man is on this little atom where he dies! But how great his intelligence! He knows when the face of the stars must be masked in darkness, when the comets will return after thousands of years, he who lasts only an instant! A microscopic insect lost in a fold of the heavenly robe, the orbs cannot hide from him a single one of their movements in the depth of space. What destinies will those stars, new to us, light? Is their revelation bound up with some new phase of humanity? You will know, race to be born; I know not, and I am departing. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

One might say that the old world was ending, and the new beginning. I behold the light of a dawn whose sunrise I shall never see. It only remains for me to sit down at the edge of my grave; then I shall descend boldly, crucifix in hand, into eternity. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

This business of saving souls had not ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited. In essence, the tribe was asking us whether we shared its feelings; if we refused to join the church, it was equivalent to saying no, to placing ourselves in the position of moral monsters. ~ Richard Wright (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 21:39, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:15, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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title: September 4


text:
October 4

October 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God. ~ Stephen Hawking
 * proposed by User:Inhuman14

 * 2006
 * A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. ~ Buster Keaton (born 4 October 1895)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes (born 4 October 1822)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. ~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner (born 4 October 1903)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — How is this? ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on responses to Hurricane Ian.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Rutherford B. Hayes · Buster Keaton

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse. ~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner (born October 4)
 * 4 because the underdog will always be protected by law and this is a great description of that defense, beautifully and morally personified by the snake and the mouse. Zarbon 05:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews By Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - Page 151
 * 1 Kalki 21:55, 3 October 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 19:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC) the quote itself is acceptable, but I am not sure of the context in which Kaltenrunner is using this assertion, and feel uneasy giving it anything more than a 1 until I know more about this.
 * The assertion is a response to someone asking him whether mankind stands up for itself, and his response to that is that mankind stands up for the underdog, and interprets the phrase beautifully with the mouse and snake as a personification. - Zarbon 22:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I remain disinclined to rank this any higher than I currently have, which is the highest you have ranked any other suggestion on this date, most of which I consider to have far more merit. I actually used your previous suggestion by Kaltenbrunner last year, despite my severe distaste for him. In relation to some of the points of this quote, I would say that sometimes the underdogs are worthy in many ways which make them worth supporting, or at least wishing well, but sometimes the underdog is rightfully the underdog, and remains so, especially when there is plainly a will to to unjustly oppress others, deceive them or confuse them. I don't actually rely on even the best of "over-dogs" being continually magnanimous, or even fair, but sometimes it is far better that some of the less than perfect ones remain so, than that they be in any way defeated or replaced by some of the severely deluded and demented underdogs who lust to be as brutal as they desire to be. ~ Kalki 00:55, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 I am all for it as long as the talk is only of something looking "justified" or not -- wallow in sentimentality for all I care. But I am against Law entering the issue. N6n 14:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:36, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:36, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

title: October 4


text:
November 4

November 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. ~ CATS of Zero Wing
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * After looking at mothers-in-law and seeing sons-in-law — I always felt that the jokes were on the wrong ones. No sir, you can look through everything I ever did write or say, and you never did hear me tell a joke about any mother-in-law — or any creed, color or religion, either. ~ Will Rogers (born 4 November 1879)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. ~ Will Rogers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth + US election day 2008)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. ~ Wilfred Owen (died 4 November 1918)
 * proposed by Antiquary

 * 2010
 * People often ask me, "Will, where do you get your jokes?" I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate. ~ Will Rogers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. ~ Wilfred Owen (90th anniversary of death)
 * proposed by Antiquary

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for the US opening date of the film based upon the character.

 * 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
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. ~ Charles Churchill (date of death)
 * 3 Zarbon 03:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. ~ Charles Churchill (date of death)
 * 3 Zarbon 03:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling — because every life, in every land, has value and dignity. ~ Laura Welch Bush
 * 2 Zarbon 03:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ~ Laura Welch Bush
 * 2 Zarbon 03:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 04:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law. We will never have a city without crime, but we would never want to live in a city that had no system of law to deal with the criminals who will always be with us. ~ Walter Cronkite
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

We can draw on the wisdom of the framers of the US Constitution in 1787. The differences among the American states then were as bitter as differences among the nation-states in the world today. In their almost miraculous insight, the founders of our country invented "federalism," a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual. Our federal system guarantees a maximum of freedom but provides it in a framework of law and justice. Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better. Cities legislate on local matters; states make decisions on matters within their borders; and the national government deals with issues that transcend the states, such as interstate commerce and foreign relations. That is federalism. Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law — a democratic federal world government — to deal with world problems. ~ Walter Cronkite
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

title: November 4


text:
December 4

December 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~ George Carlin
 * selected by IP 68.227.198.159

 * 2004
 * Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I would perish in the embrace of his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and are awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Each single angel is terrifying. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (born 4 December 1875)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ Thomas Carlyle (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through them, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this — It's not about not being scared — it's about being scared and doing it anyway — that's bravery. ~ Ysabella Brave
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. ~ Samuel Butler
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. ~ Thomas Carlyle
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one. ~ Edith Cavell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. ~ Edith Cavell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by UDScott
 * 2022 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ~ Frank Zappa (date of death)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: The quote on the Frank Zappa page is now: "I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

It's like not only does he shit on our heads, we're supposed to say thanks for the hat. ~ from The Sopranos Brendan Filone Anthony DeSando (born December 4)
 * 3 because I like the message behind the quote. I'm curious if the word "shit" is considered profanity. I don't agree with curses appearing on quote of the day, but is that specific word excessive, I'd like Kalki's thoughts since we both seem to disagree with profanity for the most part. Zarbon 16:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC) this is fine by me as a quote within the article, but a bit too extreme for QOTD.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Kids, you think you can protect 'em, well you can't. ~ from The Sopranos Brendan Filone Anthony DeSando (born December 4)
 * 4 because children seem to do things that places them in danger and no matter how hard one may try, a child finds a way. Zarbon 16:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. ~ Samuel Butler
 * 3 Zarbon 22:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0. This is the 17th century Samuel Butler, whose DOB has now been corrected as February 8, 1612. - InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. ~ Samuel Butler
 * 2 Zarbon 22:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0. This is the 17th century Samuel Butler, whose DOB has now been corrected as February 8, 1612. - InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. ~ Edith Cavell
 * 3 Zarbon 23:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4 eventually.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy. ~ Edith Cavell
 * 2 Zarbon 23:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:05, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:30, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 --ᘙ (talk) 11:29, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Violence does even justice unjustly. ~ Thomas Carlyle
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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January 5

January 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ~ Carl Sagan
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda (born 5 January 1893)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. ~ Principia Discordia
 * proposed by Kalki (for the anniversary of discovery of the "dwarf planet" Eris, named after the patron goddess of the Discordians)

 * 2008
 * A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search. ~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (born 5 January 1928)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories. ~ Konrad Adenauer (born 5 January 1876)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ~ Umberto Eco
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. ~ Konrad Adenauer
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. ~ Umberto Eco
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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

 * 2023

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
DOB: Konrad Adenauer · Umberto Eco · Marilyn Manson · Hayao Miyazaki · Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge (Date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 00:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 00:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC) I would normally rank this a 3, if I were confident of it's authorship, but though this has been attributed to Coolidge, I have found no definitive source; though in one book I actually found the definite statement that he said this on the 4th of July 1872, this would be quite extraordinary, as that was the day he was born. Some attributions state that entrepreneur Ray Kroc used it as an "inspirational dictum" but not clearly stating any author, and thus I am doubtful of attributing it to Coolidge, and reluctant to use it until authorship is more clearly determined.
 * 3 Zarbon 17:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Reality is the original Rorschach. ~ Principia Discordia
 * 3 Kalki 00:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 17:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Whereas these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world. ~ Marilyn Manson
 * 3 Zarbon 15:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:06, 3 January 2015 (UTC) 3 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC) still have a strong lean toward 3 or 4, but have different pref for this year (2015)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 24.207.61.64 07:07, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Sometimes we admire the feathers and ignore the dying bird. ~ Marilyn Manson
 * 3 Zarbon 15:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: This echoes what Thomas Paine said about Edmund Burke: "He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." (Rights of Man; quote not currently on the page for Paine). - InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

...anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. ~ Marilyn Manson
 * 2 Zarbon 15:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Triviaa 04:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Who sows fear, reaps weapons. ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
 * 3 Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 24.207.61.64 07:07, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. ~ Hayao Miyazaki
 * 4 Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

To me, through every season dearest; In every scene, by day, by night, Thou, present to my mind appearest A quenchless star, forever bright; My solitary sole delight: Where’er I am, by shore, at sea, I think of thee. ~ David Macbeth Moir
 * 2 Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

When you fly a balloon you don't file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You almost feel like part of eternity, and you just float along. ~ Jeannette Piccard
 * 3 Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ~ Stephen Decatur
 * 3 Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 24.207.61.64 07:07, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

The children play At hide and seek About the monument To Speke. And why should the dead Explorer mind Who has nothing to seek And nothing to find? ~ Humbert Wolfe
 * 2 referring to the monument of John Hanning Speke. Zarbon 06:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... ~ Umberto Eco
 * 3 bystander (talk) 02:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

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3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

title: January 5