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January 21

January 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * So far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly. ~ Ethan Allen (born 21 January 1738)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * A revelation, that may be supposed to be really of the institution of God, must also be supposed to be perfectly consistent or uniform, and to be able to stand the test of truth... Reason therefore must be the standard by which we determine the respective claims of revelation; for otherwise we may as well subscribe to the divinity of the one as of the other, or to the whole of them, or to none at all. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Was a revelation to be made known to us, it must be accommodated to our external senses, and also to our reason, so that we could come at the perception and understanding of it, the same as we do to that of things in general. We must perceive by our senses, before we can reflect with the mind. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * That which is above comprehension we cannot perceive to be contradictory, nor on the other hand can we perceive its rationality or consistency. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it. ~ Ethan Allen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas. ~ Ethan Allen
 * 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; recent remarks on current events.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name. ~ Seishirō Itagaki
 * 3 Zarbon 05:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. ~ Stonewall Jackson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:57, 14 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 2 because we've had other quotations on war lately. Nemo 13:51, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This has now been used, in 2023, on his birthdate of September 9. 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:03, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC) but with a lean toward 1, because the context is not actually clear with just this attributed exclamation itself — and it is often cited as a misattribution, or a replacement of his actual declaration in regard to his military action.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

title: January 21


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February 21

February 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Careful the things you say, children will listen. Guide them along the way, children will see and learn. Children may not obey, but children will look to you for which way to turn; to learn what to be! Careful before you say "Listen to Me." Children will listen. ~ Into the Woods (Sondheim/Lapine)
 * selected by IP 172.134.14.22

 * 2005
 * For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. ~ W. H. Auden (born 21 February 1907)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006 : When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. ~ Anaïs Nin (born 21 February 1903)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. ~ W. H. Auden ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. ~ W. H. Auden
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. ~ W. H. Auden ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive. ~ Erma Bombeck (born 21 February 1927)
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

Erratum : This QOTD originally was presented with the statement "All writers have concealed more than they revealed" at the start of it. This is also quote of Anaïs Nin, but from a later portion of the same work, and after reviewing my notes, I believe its inclusion at the start of this statement was a transcription error entirely on my part, as I rather hurriedly gathered up ideas to use for QOTD in the brief time I had the day before yesterday. In over 11 years of QOTD work, I believe this is the first time I have made this type of error, and will be on guard against repeating it in the future. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Jedi3

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * Used 7 November 2003, selected by Kalki

 * 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
 * Used 8 May 2004, selected by Kalki

 * We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * Used 14 September 2004, selected by Kalki [originally this was an unsourced quote, but is now a disputed one, with no definite source as yet found. ~ Kalki 18:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)]

Suggestions
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. ~ Malcolm X (Death Date)
 * Liquidice5 14:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC) (but might rank it higher on his birth-date)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as one family, there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being, or one human being living around and with another human being. ~ Malcolm X (Death Date)
 * Liquidice5 14:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC) (but even when there are very good quotes available, I generally prefer to use quotes on people's date of birth rather than their date of death).
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. ~ W. H. Auden
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others. ~ W. H. Auden
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. ~ Robert Mugabe (born February 21)
 * 2 because artillery and weaponry is needed just as much as the people's votes, national unity and national protection go hand in hand. Zarbon 04:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:01, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. ~ Robert Mugabe (born February 21)
 * 2 because sometimes drastic situations may call for drastic measures. Zarbon 04:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:01, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:02, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:02, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 21 February 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 4.

 * 1 FPTI (talk) 18:56, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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title: February 21


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March 21

March 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. ~ Benito Juárez (born 21 March 1806)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ Jean Cocteau
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly — and Lo! The Bird is on the Wing. ~ Omar Khayyám ~ (Quote relating to Spring, on the date of the Vernal equinox for most of the world this year.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature — translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. ~ Hans Hofmann
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long. ~ Ryōkan ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven — All's right with the world! ~ Robert Browning ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I do not want to avoid immersing myself in trouble — to be a mess — to struggle out of it. I want to invent, to discover, to imagine, to speculate, to improvise — to seize the hazardous in order to be inspired. I want to experience the manifestation of the absolute — the manifestation of the unexpected in an extreme and unique relation. I know that only by following my creative instincts in an act of creative destruction will I be able to find it. ~ Hans Hofmann
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki, on his assessment of the significance of his current historical visit to the island of Cuba.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki — poetry on poets for World Poetry Day, March 21.

 * 2019
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm. ~ Benito Juárez
 * used on 5 May 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. ~ Modest Mussorgsky
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Sounds and ideas are hanging in the air; I am devouring them and stuffing myself. ~ Modest Mussorgsky
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I continue to feel that if you're going to go on being this stupid, you should try to be more polite; or alternately, if you're going to go on being this rude, you should try not to say such dumb things. ~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ~ Samuel Ullman
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC) date of birth is 13 April, according to Wikipedia.

Politics is the art of human happiness. ~ Herbert Fisher
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed. ~ Herbert Fisher
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 03:24, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 03:24, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 13:48, 18 March 2018 (UTC) the most famous lines in Chinese poetry to celebrate World Poetry Day, March 21.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:19, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

title: March 21


text:
April 21

April 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Molière
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ John Muir (born 21 April 1838)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ John Muir (born 21 April 1838)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ Charlotte Brontë
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone — we all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. ~ John Muir
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ~ J. G. Ballard
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for. ~ Rollo May (born 21 April 1909)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line. ~ Rollo May
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth. ~ Peter Abelard
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to Easter Sunday 2019.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

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

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them. ~ John Muir (born April 21, 1838)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A barrister's job is to put the case for the defense as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate's skills. The barrister's belief or disbelief in the truth of the story is irrelevant: it's for the jury to decide this often difficult question. ~ John Mortimer (born April 21, 1923)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Beliefs about how you live your life, matters of private decision, views best kept for private enjoyment, prejudice or entertainment, can't be imposed by the operation of criminal law. Attempts to enforce such views can only make the government the subject of ridicule. ~ John Mortimer
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did. ~ Hans Fritzsche (born April 21)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

What I would like to emanate from the darkness of this tragedy is one spark of life. I mean, the realization that crime does not begin when you murder people. Crime begins with propaganda, even if such propaganda is for a good cause. The moment propaganda turns against another nation or against any human being, evil starts. ~ Hans Fritzsche
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) but trimmed to begin at "Crime does not begin when you murder people..."

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength. ~ Kyuzo Mifune
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and open-mindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. ~ Kyuzo Mifune
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain. ~ Kyuzo Mifune
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain; His blood red banner streams afar: Who follows in His train? ~ Reginald Heber
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) but would extend this to include the lines which follow it: Who best can drink his cup of woe, Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, He follows in His train.

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee: Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty! God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity. ~ Reginald Heber
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. ~ Garrett Hardin
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. ~ Garrett Hardin
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. ~ Garrett Hardin
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. ~ Rollo May
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. ~ Rollo May
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you. ~ Rollo May
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself. ~ Rollo May We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad. If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) but would extend it to :

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. ~ Catherine II of Russia

OR

I praise loudly. I blame softly. ~ Catherine II of Russia
 * 3 for both versions. Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. ~ Catherine II of Russia
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many. ~ Catherine II of Russia
 * 4 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited. ~ Catherine II of Russia
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone! ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
 * 3 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walking, 1862
 * 4 It is the traditional date that Romulus and Remus founded Rome SuperJew 08:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) but would probably prefer some other quotes on the subject of Romulus and Remus

title: April 21


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May 21

May 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~ Piet Hein
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * May the Force be with you. ~ Jedi saying; used in all Star Wars episodes.
 * selected by Kalki (recent release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the last of the "prequel trilogy" of Star Wars)

 * 2006
 * A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ Alexander Pope (born 21 May 1688)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ Charles Lindbergh (80th anniversary of his solo flight across the Atlantic.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made Enlargements too, In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew. ~ Alexander Pope ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace. A prudent Chief not always must display His Pow'rs in equal Ranks, and fair Array, But with th' Occasion and the Place comply, Conceal his Force, nay seem sometimes to Fly. Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem, Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream. ~ Alexander Pope ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * All seems Infected that th' Infected spy, As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye. ~ Alexander Pope ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ Alexander Pope
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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

 * proposed by HouseOfChange

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I've said that net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time. It's true. If Republicans have their way, large corporations won't just have the loudest voices in the room. They'll be able to effectively silence everyone else. Every small business they'd prefer not to compete with. Every blogger who publishes something they don't like. We have to stop them. ~ Al Franken (date of birth)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:16, 17 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 00:26, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

O happiness! our being's end and aim! ~ Alexander Pope
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 22:39, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 00:26, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

title: May 21


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July 21

July 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ "Enobarbus" in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~ Carl Sagan
 * proposed by MosheZadka (The Scopes Trial ended with a guilty verdict on 21 July 1925)

 * 2006
 * The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ Ernest Hemingway (born 21 July 1899)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. ~ J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (a quote from the first "Harry Potter" book on the date of release of the 7th and last of the series.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * No one thing is true. It's all true. ~ Ernest Hemingway
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Now I've been happy lately Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun.  Oh, I've been smiling lately Dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be Someday it's going to come. ~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * 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; in regard to the recent successful crewing of the Blue Origin rocket into space.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The medium is the message. ~ Marshall McLuhan (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 13:12, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Don't you feel a change a coming from another side of time, breaking down the walls of silence, lifting shadows from your mind. ~ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) (born 21 July 1948)
 * 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

"It's funny," I said. "It's very funny, and it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love." ~ Ernest Hemingway

 * 2 Kalki 20:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 23:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

title: July 21


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August 21

August 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ "Enobarbus" on Cleapatra, in Antony and Cleopatra Act II sc. ii by William Shakespeare
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~ Thomas Carlyle
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If you want the world to know We won't let hatred grow Put a little love in your heart. ~ Jackie DeShannon ~ (born 21 August 1944)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full. ~ Leon Trotsky (died 21 August 1940)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Another day goes by Still the children cry Put a little love in your heart. ~ Jackie DeShannon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. ~ Leon Trotsky
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * 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 (A quote of a statement about Hawaii, using one of the most famous of Hawaiian words, made by the first US president to be born in Hawaii, for the 50th anniversary of the Statehood of the 50th US State, "The Aloha State.")
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The night was long and dark and just Another dagger to my trust. I thrust it in until I bleed I wiped my point for you to see.  And anyway, It's over now. Nothing left to say.  I don't know why, I don't care how, It's over anyway.  ~ Alicia Witt ~ (born 21 August 1975)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. ~ Leon Trotsky
 * 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, in regard to abiding affirmations in his role as candidate for President of the United States of America.

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki-->

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Hawaii becomes 50th state of the US (1959) · Soviet coup d'état attempt (1991)
 * DOB: Count Basie · Sergey Biryuzov · Wilt Chamberlain · Jackie DeShannon · Thomas Garrett · Kenny Rogers · Lucius Shepard · Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon · Alicia Witt · DOD: Leon Trotsky

Suggestions
Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive. ~ Shimon Peres (b. August 21, 1923)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: It's not my fault Peres's birthday is one day after the finalization of the Oslo Accords! :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3, but I'd say use 1 or the other but not both, we shouldn't have 2 days relating to Israel v Palestine.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. ~ Leon Trotsky, died this day.
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:00, 18 August 2011 (UTC) —with information presently available, this does not seem to be a quote of Trotsky but a paraphrase or summary assessment of his attitudes. * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ~ Leon Trotsky, died this day
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. ~ Vice President Dan Quayle; Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state on 21 August 1959
 * 3 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 Sveden 13:22, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC) If we do honor Hawaii, perhaps on the 50th anniversary of its statehood in 2009, I would hope it would be with something more than Quayle's fumblings.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

I can feel a something pounding in my brain Just any time that someone speaks your name Trumpets sound and I hear thunder boom Every time that you walk in the room. ~ Jackie DeShannon ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 MurielMary (talk) 12:33, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Strategic missiles are precisely the weapons which can deliver a decisive blow against the enemy's primary targets — his armed forces, and first of all, his strategic nuclear attack weapons. As a result of such a strike, the political objectives of a war can be attained in the first days of the conflict. ~ Sergei Biriuzov
 * 3 Zarbon 15:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:44, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:44, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:44, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

title: August 21


text:
October 21

October 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It doesn't matter if we were down 3-0. You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. ~ David Ortiz
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ Thomas Alva Edison (tested first practical light bulb 21 October 1879)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Should children be permitted to read Romances, & Relations of Giants & Magicians, & Genii? — I know all that has been said against it; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. — I know no other way of giving the mind a love of "the Great," & "the Whole." — Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They contemplate nothing but parts — and all parts are necessarily little — and the Universe to them is but a mass of little things. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * If we must all agree, all work together, we're no better than a machine. If an individual can't work in solidarity with his fellows, it's his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We've been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. ~ Robert Frost ~
 * proposed by Kalki ("End of the world" prophesied on this date by some... )

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of selection, he would not have taken notice of those facts upon which he grounded his principle. You must have a lantern in your hand to give light, otherwise all the materials in the world are useless, for you cannot find them; and if you could, you could not arrange them. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ~ Martin Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 16:52, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:02, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ~ Alfred Nobel
 * 2 Zarbon 16:52, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. ~ Alfred Nobel
 * 2 Zarbon 16:52, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days! ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
 * 4 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me. ~ Leo Burnett
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved. ~ Rich Mullins
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours. ~ Rich Mullins
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

My political opponents can have their pound of flesh, and they do, but they will not eat into my beliefs, what I stand for and have done in politics. That is the inner steel in me. ~ Peter Mandelson
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting. ~ Georg Solti
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find. ~ Georg Solti
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

To hear, one must be silent. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:02, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 2 Zarbon 17:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road

 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life. ~ Alfred Nobel
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk another road. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. “You must change your life,” he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

With the myth of the State out of the way, the real mutuality and reciprocity of society and individual became clear. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice — the power of change, the essential function of life. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 02:30, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have been forced to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

''Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.'' ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

''A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.'' ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 3 Kalki 18:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: October 21


text:
November 21

November 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We must believe in free will — we have no choice. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (born 21 November 1902 or 14 July 1904; uncertainties exist)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire (date of birth)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. ~ Voltaire
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence. ~ Alexander Berkman
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * "Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. ~ Alexander Berkman
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2019

 * proposed by N6n

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. ~ Voltaire
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:09, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 4 Zarbon 06:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki with a lean toward 0 — as such is the human condition ONLY when very ignorant and confused … there are MANY humans who do not succumb to such delusions, which this portion of a quip does not make clear. (talk · contributions) 20:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! ~ Bryan Procter
 * 2 Zarbon 02:31, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman
 * 2 Zarbon 23:22, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Only the heel Of splendid steel Shall stand secure on sliding fate, When golden navies weep their freight. ~ Arthur Quiller-Couch
 * 3 Zarbon 23:22, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I could not find the way to God; There were too many flaming suns For signposts, and the fearful road Led over wastes where millions Of tangled comets hissed and burned— I was bewildered and I turned. ~ Arthur Quiller-Couch
 * 2 Zarbon 23:22, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:12, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

title: November 21


text:
December 21

December 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday... ~ e. e. cummings
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ George S. Patton (died 21 December 1945)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. We are awake in the night. We turn the Wheel to bring the light. We call the sun from the womb of night. Blessed Be!  ~ Starhawk ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. ~ Rebecca West (born 21 December 1892)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 21 December 1940)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2009
 * All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli in Coningsby
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * I was persuaded and am, that God's way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God. ~ Roger Williams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole world, that the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace. ~ Roger Williams ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki, for the day of the Solstice, with the darkest periods in the Northern hemisphere again proceeding toward the lighter days, as the Sun's path again begins it ascent in the sky, though many of the coldest days remain... for a time.

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of this solstice date for 2022.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent landmark decision applying Section 3 of the 14th Amendement of the Constitution of the United States.

 * 2024: Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Usual date of the solstice and a primary point of Yule, or Jul celebrations.
 * DOB: Benjamin Disraeli · Joseph Stalin · Rebecca West · Roger Williams

Once one is caught up into the material world, not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (Date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 06:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 and I would prefer if this was moved to his date of birth, September 24. Zarbon 20:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
 * 3 Kalki 17:04, 20 December 2005 (UTC) (Date of the solstice, and Yule, or Jul celebrations) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 20:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Religion cannot be true which needs such instruments of violence to uphold it so. ~ Roger Williams (born December 21, 1603)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but would extend this to:
 * A civil sword (as woeful experience in all ages has proved) is so far from bringing or helping forward an opposite in religion to repentance that magistrates sin grievously against the work of God and blood of souls by such proceedings. Because as (commonly) the sufferings of false and antichristian teachers harden their followers, who being blind, by this means are occasioned to tumble into the ditch of hell after their blind leaders, with more inflamed zeal of lying confidence. So, secondly, violence and a sword of steel begets such an impression in the sufferers that certainly they conclude (as indeed that religion cannot be true which needs such instruments of violence to uphold it so) that persecutors are far from soft and gentle commiseration of the blindness of others....

 * 3 because forcing others to believe in a faith is in itself negligent to truth. Zarbon 20:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Property has its duties as well as its rights. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 20:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~ Rebecca West (born December 21, 1892)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 although infanticide is widely accepted in many places across the planet in order to keep population crowding, such as China, for example. I don't think infanticide is indefensible either, especially if the parents agree not to keep the child. But I do understand the comparison West is trying to make here and although I don't particularly agree with using infanticide as a comparison, the quote still holds some truth...the value of a book is indeed sacred. Zarbon 20:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. ~ Joseph Stalin (born December 21)
 * 3 because he is more than right. Caesar, Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler all succumbed and their armies with them. Zarbon 16:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Stalin Era - Page 122 by Philip Boobbyer - History - 2000
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

A Lieutenant is not worth a General ...even if that Lieutenant is my son! I do not change the soldier for the marshal! ~ Joseph Stalin (born December 21)
 * 3 because this is true honor. It is never respectable to protect one's own son just for the sake of the person being one's own son. It is better to be loyal to military principle and follow military code. When Stalin's son was captured and was used as a trump card in order for Stalin to give up one of his highest generals, Stalin said this statement, obliterating the chances of allowing the enemy to feel any reassurance. And truly, this statement is magnificent and sheer brilliance. Zarbon 16:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography - Page 476 by Edvard Radzinsky - Biography & Autobiography - 1997
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ~ Joseph Stalin
 * 4 because knowledge is power. Zarbon 03:25, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:26, 19 December 2013 (UTC) 2 Kalki 02:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! ~ Konstantin Rokossovsky (born December 21)
 * 3 because the comparison of a machine and an army is very true, and moreso beautiful if anything. The fact that a machine can be broken is also a nice recreation of the imagery brought about here, the destruction of an army on par with the destruction of a machine. Zarbon 16:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Current Biography - Page 562 by H.W. Wilson Company - Current biography - 1945
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC); in regard of the solstice.

 * Les fous sont aux échecs les plus proches des rois. -- In chess the fool stands next to the king. ~ Mathurin Régnier
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:37, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

title: December 21