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October 30

October 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ Malcolm Forbes
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~ John Adams (born 30 October 1735)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ~ John Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ John Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years... ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (born 30 October 1751)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ John Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people. ~ John Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" Remember what the dormouse said — Feed your head! Feed your head!  ~ Grace Slick ~ (born 30 October 1939)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I turned myself from a 97 pound weakling into the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man. ~ Charles Atlas, born that day.
 * 3 brings back memories of the old comic books with the cool comic book ads. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 (braggadocio, memorable tho it may be) ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

''One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.'' ~ Grace Slick (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. ~ Grace Slick (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad. ~ Michael Winner
 * 2 Zarbon 04:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. ~ Paul Valéry
 * 3 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (Science is much misunderstood in popular culture today. This doesn't help.) ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely. ~ Paul Valéry
 * 3 because with all the company in the world, man is still alone. Beautiful. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~ Paul Valéry
 * 3 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (unsourced) Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 3 because this is magnificent and elegant. Beautiful to conjure death as a debt, paid in full and in the end. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 3 nice attachment to mythological character Cerberus and the changing of personality. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 3 because some things are best left unexplained. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter
 * 3 because beauty is only skin deep. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. ~ John Adams
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. ~ John Adams
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 2 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Man's social happiness all rests on us: Through all the drama — whether damned or not — Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Never say more than is necessary. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC), with a lean toward 4.

I have sought, but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the Organ, And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angel Will speak in that chord again, It may be that only in Heaven I shall hear that grand Amen. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

 * 3.25. Pictures of Kristallnacht would be fitting for this quote. – Illegitimate Barrister, 15:27, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:18, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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November 30

November 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. ~ Mandy Patinkin (born 30 November 1952) as "Inigo Montoya" in The Princess Bride
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~ Winston Churchill (born 30 November 1874).
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2007
 * The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ Jacques Barzun (born November 30, 1907)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve. ~ Jacques Barzun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain (born 30 November 1835)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * A sound heart is a safer guide than an ill-trained conscience. ~ Mark Twain
 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 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:

 * Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * used 4 September 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * used 26 September 2004, selected by Kalki

 * He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * used 19 October 2009, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority. ~ Jacques Barzun
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 because I have trouble working out exactly what he's trying to say. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 17:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 16:01, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Criticism will need an injection of humility — that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system. ~ Jacques Barzun
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 17:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. ~ Jacques Barzun
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:41, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 17:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 16:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist. ~ Jacques Barzun
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:41, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 17:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. ~ Albert Kesselring (born November 30)
 * 4 because this is one of my three alltime favorite quotes. A soldier is empty without his order, which defines him. And a true soldier is only a soldier if he is disciplined and furthermore, loyal to the bitter end. Loyalty and obedience goes hand in hand as a foundation of creating the principle for which I believe strongly, the principle of the soldier. Zarbon 04:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 322
 * 1 This is exactly the kind of mentality that fueled the holocaust. Let he who has no conscience obey for obedience's sake. Lyle 17:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This has nothing to do with that. Kesselring was Field Marshal of the Air Fleet. He was responsible for sending millions of bombers to their demise and he was in charge of the Italian campaign, a very powerful man. As chief of the luftwaffe, he dealt with Italian opposition, and on some occasions, defiance and betrayal. When asked by Leon what he believed to be the most important quality of a soldier, this was his response. And I agree with this strongly. And this goes for all countries in the world. A soldier must be loyal and obey. The very word soldier (soldat) is an old French word derived from "solidarius", latin for "to pay." To pay a debt so to speak, to one's country. Magnificently enthralling quote for me and one of my three all-time favorites. Zarbon 03:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * What is the powerful meaning behind this quote? It essentially says, "You should obey, because that's the point of being a soldier." I get it. These words are neither thought-provoking nor inspiring. But I'll admit that I agree with the second half of this quote. Lyle 19:55 5, November 2008 (UTC)
 * I myself study military issues and I find this quote to be the best among the suggestions for the day. Whether or not the quote is thought provoking is completely irrelevant. The second half of the quote, like you said, is what makes it powerful. Fossil 23:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I never said the second half was powerful. I said I agreed with it, as in, I agree with the idea of doing away with soldiery. Lyle 16:43, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that you like my suggestion. I'm sure you will like many of my other suggestions. Thanks for the confidence. Zarbon 06:34, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * To Lyle: If you don't like soldiers and service, then it's obvious you wouldn't like it. But for people who love military history, propaganda, and operations, such as myself, it's an epitome of a quote. It depends on what you like, really. I'm a military lover, therefore, the quote is powerful. Some people like the idea...some people don't. A matter of opinion really. Zarbon 06:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Waheedone 06:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Waheedone, if you are going to rate my favorite suggestion so highly, please explain the reason as to why. Zarbon 15:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Lyle, Waheedone...the both of you have absolutely no history for participating in this project aside from casting votes here on the qotd suggestions. If anything, neither of your votes should be taken into account. I'd say the same exact thing about Fossil, but I see he has recently added some pages worth of material. Then again, it's still not a lengthy amount of material or history and even his votes should not be counted. I'm just stating how I feel. At this point, the only votes that should be counted are those of InvisibleSun, Kalki, and myself. There should be voting limitations to people who haven't contributed to wikiquote and are only here to cast votes. Zarbon 15:42, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Zarbon - you seem to be taking this very personally. Calm down. It is evident that you want this quote to be chosen at any expense, including the proposal to ban others from voting. I think I've been voting on QOTD's for about 6 months (and reading them for much longer) and I've recently made my first contribution to the archives. That should be enough, if even necessary. This is Wikiquote, after all. Lyle 20:01, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought I made it blatantly obvious how important this is to me. But that is completely besides the point. The fact that questionable people who just cast votes without having any history of contributions is what is most annoying. I agree with Kalki in the notion that all people who do not have any history of contributions should not be allowed to vote. There should be limitations on these grounds and this holds merit because random people aren't supposed to vote without having any history other than the qotd suggestions. I concur with Kalki fully. Only the votes of InvisibleSun, Kalki, and myself, along with some reputable long-time users who have contributed to wikiquote heavily (other than the qotd) should be able to participate in the initial voting process. However, this is not the place to discuss that. When it comes to this specific quote, yes it is one of my most favorites of all time and yes, I have waited a very long time for its acceptance. Zarbon 03:10, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Read QOTD Guidelines. "Any registered user is invited to make proposals, or to rank each candidate on these pages:" I am a registered user. I rank this candidate 1, and I'll move it to its chronilogical space again, where it belongs. Please stop abusing the system to get your quote chosen. Lyle 21:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Two key things to remember here: first, you are not an administrator, so you don't need to worry about "chronological order" and stating QOTD guidelines, which also is a bit suspicious since only some, and truly some administrators stress the very minor and insignificant matter of the ordering. The very fact that you would bring that up is suspicious. And secondly, your incessant and constant return and response will not help to include your votes. You have absolutely no contribution either other than casting votes. You deserve the same treatment as any other random person. Zarbon 12:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have contributed (albeit not much), and you make little sense. Lyle 14:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I make a lot of sense, and once a rubric is in place, a common guideline if you will, then there will be limitations for voting, especially from people who have no actual contributions. Zarbon 16:03, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC) While it has historical notoriety, I strongly prefer not to memorialize it.
 * 1 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:22, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain (born November 30, 1835)
 * 4 Lyle 15:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC) 3 Lyle 20:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 04:25, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just from examining the votes on quotes for this day, I get the impression that Zarbon, Fossil, and Waheedone are either friends or the same person... No matter, this quote is already well-known among bicyclists, and I wouldn't expect everyone to find it humorous. Lyle 15:46, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello. I am sorry if you feel that people cannot share the same opinion. I don't particularly find this quote worthwhile myself. Although I have been examining many of the quotes and I don't find this particular one to be deservant of a 1, much less a 4. I think that the quotes have to have some form of impact myself. Being humorous doesn't make it an excellent quote. The fact that you even imply that I am another person is bad enough, but that you believe your suggestion is better... Fossil 23:27, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sure Twain has more worthwhile quotes in comparison to this one, not that I'd suggest it for this year because I am hoping that one of my three alltime favorite quotes makes it. I'm a little upset by your remark Lyle. I don't particularly take well to being referred to as other members. I've been wrongfully accused in the past and I'd appreciate that you do not infer upon something like that. Just because people agree with me, doesn't mean that it's wrong. I'm actually moreso curious as to why you even thought that a quote such as "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live" would be liked by others. Just because you feel it's a good quote, doesn't mean that others would feel that way also. Zarbon 06:34, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You mean "imply", not "infer". But I didn't imply; I outright said what I thought, and I still believe it. Lyle 16:43, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Why don't you examine Twain further and try to suggest some other quotes by him. This one's too short and bent on humor rather than a powerful image, hence how I personally give quotes high ratings myself. And for this entire year, this date is the most important to me right now...so I honestly hope that my favorite quote makes it above all else. Zarbon 06:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:22, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~ Mark Twain (date of birth)
 * 3 Ningauble 19:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:42, 27 November 2008 (UTC) I like the first part of this statement much, and can understand the reasons for the rest of the statement, but I can't agree entirely with the last sentence.
 * Me either, I find it poignantly ironic: thought provoking in that direct experience of rainbows belies the notion that scientific understanding could diminish anything. ~ Ningauble 17:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 1 Zarbon 06:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:22, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 20:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. ~ Mark Twain, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * 3 Lyle 20:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 17:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

In reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Death does not have the power to create unhappiness. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 17:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No connection to date bystander (talk) 03:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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December 30

December 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ~ David Sedaris
 * selected by Basil Fawlty

 * 2004
 * I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
 * If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ (born 30 December 1865)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. ~ Romain Rolland (died 30 December 1944)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2008
 * It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ~ Romain Rolland
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it — that is true civilization. ~ Hideki Tojo
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ~ Romain Rolland
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me. ~ Romain Rolland
 * 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, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

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

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on a major historical decision.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. ~ Rudyard Kipling, born that day
 * 2 ~ UDScott 15:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3, including the expansion as shown below. - InvisibleSun 22:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 because united they stand and divided they fall. The wolf is a grandiose example, and happens to be one of my most favorite animals, if not my most favorite. Furthermore, the wolf pack ideology is a powerful one. Zarbon 20:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC) but I would also probably eventually rank it 3 or maybe even a 4 with the use of these complete stanzas:
 * Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. ~ Hideki Tojo
 * 3 Zarbon 16:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
 * 2 Zarbon 16:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

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January 31

January 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. ~ Ken Wilber
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. … if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious. ~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the "edge of history." There would be a real New Age. ~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing — a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. ~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual" — and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that bodhisattva vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their own primordial nature. ~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Attunement could occur through any of the great religions, but would be tied exclusively to none of them. A person could be attuned to an "integral spirituality" while still be a practicing Christian, Buddhist, New-Age advocate, or Neopagan. This would be something added to one's religion, not subtracted from it. The only thing it would subtract (and there's no way around this) is the belief that one's own path is the only true path to salvation.~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane? ~ Ken Wilber
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki to start off the Chinese zodiac Year of the Horse, beginning this date in 2014…

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Guy Fawkes executed 1606.
 * DOB: Tallulah Bankhead · Philip Glass · Zane Grey · Norman Mailer · Grant Morrison · Suzanne Pleshette · Ken Wilber · Irving Langmuir

"Real life?" What's that? ~ Grant Morrison (date of birth)
 * User:Mister Six
 * 1 Kalki 19:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 09:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:26, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels. ~ Ken Wilber
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate — each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.~ Ken Wilber

 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 3 Gartamar27 (talk) 09:26, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:53, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

 * User:Jphan122 15:25, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:46, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

title: January 31


text:
March 31

March 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ Æschylus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. ~ René Descartes (born 31 March 1596)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ Cesar Chavez (born 31 March 1927)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. … I do not deny that sometimes in these wanderings they are lucky enough to find something true. But I do not allow that this argues greater industry on their part, but only better luck. ~ René Descartes
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ~ Andrew Marvell ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Cogito ergo sum I think, therefore I am. ~ René Descartes ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless. ~ Cesar Chavez
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Fate with jealous eye does see Two perfect loves, nor lets them close: Their union would her ruin be, And her tyrranic power depose.  And therefore her decrees of steel Us as the distant Poles have placed (Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel) Not by themselves to be embraced,  Unless the giddy heaven fall, And earth some new convulsion tear; And, us to join, the world should all Be cramped into a planisphere.  As lines (so loves) oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet: But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.  Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. ~ Andrew Marvell ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ René Descartes
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; "To Him That Was Crucified" in regard to Easter Sunday 2024.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. ~ Andrew Marvell (born March 31, 1621)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would prefer to extend it at least thus:
 * At my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
 * OR, perhaps, even earlier,
 * My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
 * Or even from the start of the poem to the final line quoted above. ~ Kalki 00:33, 29 March 2009 (UTC) or even the whole thing, and be done with it... ~ Kalki 00:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Favoring the shorter extension. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (from "But at my back I always hear" to "But none I think do there embrace.") DanielTom (talk) 01:26, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. ~Andrew Marvell
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) I had been hoping to use this soon, but would opt for the Descartes line at this time. Strong lean toward a 4, but would prefer to extend this to at least include the preceding stanza:
 * What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness: The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
 * AND, perhaps extended even further to include:
 * Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. And opposition of the stars.

 * 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Favoring the shorter extension. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. ~ Andrew Marvell
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world. ~ Guru Angad Dev
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) I have some sympathies with the sentiment, but not the conclusion.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing comes out of nothing. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (not original thought) DanielTom (talk) 01:29, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~ René Descartes
 * 4 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) though I can agree with the intentions of this statement, I always am inclined to object to mere intelligence being equated with greatness — without other virtues it is never that at all.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) (and even then be cautious.) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. ~ René Descartes
 * 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ~ René Descartes
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I am all for the short and merry life. ~ Edward FitzGerald
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time. ~ Edward FitzGerald
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

To fight evil is to fight ourselves. ~ Octavio Paz
 * 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) truth, but not entirely well expressed in this form.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The windy lights of Autumn flare; I watch the moonlit sails go by; I marvel how men toil and fare, The weary business that they play! Their voyaging is vanity, And fairy gold is all their gain, And all the winds of winter cry, “My Love returns no more again.” ~ Andrew Lang
 * 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid. ~ John Fowles
 * 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a very slight lean toward 3.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. ~ Michael Savage
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 11:10, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC) with a slight lean towards 2.

title: March 31


text:
May 31

May 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ Maya Angelou
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, And the infidel come into full possession. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (born 31 May 1819)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I am for those that have never been master'd, For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd, For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (born 31 May 1819)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles ... To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle... ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Be composed — be at ease with me — I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Talk not so much … of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. ~ Walt Whitman
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. … I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. ~ Walt Whitman
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is time to explain myself — let us stand up. What is known I strip away, I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown. The clock indicates the moment — but what does eternity indicate? ~Walt Whitman ~ in Song of Myself
 * proposed by Kalki

Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved, With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image, Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more, Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days, (They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,) Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see… ~ Walt Whitman ~ in Song of Myself
 * 2012
 * 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 bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I never look a gift horse in the mouth, but I am not averse to looking an organisation in the motive. ~ Fred Allen, an American comedian (born 31 May, 1956)

 * 2 Kalki 17:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC) I must confess that there is not likely to be anyone I would favor more than Whitman on his birthday than there is anyone I would favor more than William Shakespeare on his.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~ Fred Allen
 * 2 Kalki 17:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 13:16, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, The Power Of Positive Thinking (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:29, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

 * This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. ~ Walt Whitman
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 10:02, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

title: May 31


text:
July 31

July 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ Lorenz Hart (a Blue moon occurred on 31 July 2004)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. ~ J. K. Rowling, (born 31 July 1965)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ Milton Friedman (born 31 July 1912)
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2007
 * In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. ~ Primo Levi
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism. ~ Primo Levi
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual. ~ Primo Levi
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable. ~ Milton Friedman
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth. ~ J. K. Rowling
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun, extended for context by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Matchups

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ Milton Friedman
 * used 17 November 2006, proposed by Kalki

 * used 28 March 2022, proposed by

Suggestions
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: "to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away." ~ Primo Levi
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. ~ J. K. Rowling
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC) Very significant line of the Harry Potter series, but no strong desire to use it this year.
 * 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Agree with Kalki--would someone like to research the HP timeline and identify the (future) year when this line takes place, and maybe we should plan to use it then. Matchups 15:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with Matchups and Kalki; this line occurs in the Potter universe on the 1st September, 2017 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Harry_Potter_series)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (major spoiler, so I wouldn't use it) DanielTom (talk) 03:15, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Governments never learn. Only people learn. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both. ~ Milton Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3.5 (arguably his best quote) DanielTom (talk) 03:19, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

title: July 31


text:
August 31

August 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ~ Chester Bowles
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Know Thyself ~ Ancient proverb that was inscribed upon the temple of the Oracle of Delphi.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. ~ William Saroyan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ William Saroyan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. ~ William Saroyan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy— the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops. ~ William Saroyan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There’s not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between extremists and moderates of all the religions. … What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous thing to do is to give up and lose hope. The main enemy is not terrorism or extremism, but ignorance. ~ Queen Rania of Jordan
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them. ~ William Saroyan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * 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 bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, from the historic announcement of the end of US military operations in Afghanistan.

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
And that is the story of Alma,//Who knew how to receive and to give.//The body that reached her embalma'//Was one that had known how to live. ~ Alma, Tom Lehrer, dedicated to Alma Mahler (b. August 31, 1879)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Kalki 17:28, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Herby  talk thyme 18:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Honorable people, do not become a tool in the hands of irresponsible political people. That is not your game. You will not win that game. You will only lose and the country will lose. ~ Robert Kocharyan (born August 31)
 * 3 Zarbon 05:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Stability is not furniture, and cannot be inherited. ~ Robert Kocharyan (born August 31)
 * 3 because it takes a lot to maintain stability. Zarbon 05:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: BBC Archive - NewsBank - Jul 26, 2001
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

It is apparent that any tool that is used for ten years will eventually rust, will luckily break, and already used tools are no longer in demand. ~ Robert Kocharyan (born August 31)
 * 4 because there is a strong comparison here, that of a tool to humans. And humans have always been tools in the hands of politicians and this quote says a lot. Zarbon 05:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

You educate a woman, you educate a family. You educate a girl, you educate the future. ~ Queen Rania of Jordan
 * 2 Zarbon 22:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 — but only if a definite source is found. (as of 2016·08·28 I cannot locate a definite source).
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Great quote. MurielMary 08:58, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

All the gods are dead except the god of war. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
 * 3 Zarbon 22:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

My writing is careless, but all through it is something that is good, that is mine alone, that no other writer could ever achieve. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small. The priest begs God for grace, and the king begs something for something. Sometimes he begs the people for loyalty, sometimes he begs God to forgive him. No man in the world can have endured ten years without having begged God to forgive him. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I see the war as death in one form or another for men dressed as soldiers, and all the men who survived the war, including myself, I see as men who died with their brothers, dressed as soldiers. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Art can no longer afford to be contemptuous of politics, and it appears to be time politics took a little instruction from art. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I believed from the beginning of remembered experience that I was somebody with an incalculable potential for enlargement, somebody who both knew and could find out, upon whom demands could be made with the expectation of having them fulfilled. I felt at the same time, and pretty much constantly, that I was nothing in relation to Enormity, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I have read Schopenhauer at the age of twelve with no bewilderment and no contempt of his contempt for the world and its strange inhabitants, and no contempt for the strange inhabitant himself. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

You act as if you know more than I'll ever know, but I've forgotten more than you'll ever know. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up! Inherit the wealth of your ancestors! ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Don't forget that some things count more than other things. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give. ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 18:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn't it the least we can do for one another? ~ William Saroyan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. ~ Hermann von Helmholtz (born 31 August 1821)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole — a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind. ~ Hermann von Helmholtz (born 31 August 1821)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:27, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

title: August 31


text:
October 31

October 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Merry meet, and merry part, and Blessed Be. ~ A pagan expression of blessing.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. ~ Loreena McKennitt ~ (Halloween / All Soul's Night theme)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. ~ John Keats ~ (born October 31, 1795)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. ~ Aleister Crowley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! ~ John Keats ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Standing on the bridge that crosses The river that goes out to the sea The wind is full of a thousand voices They pass by the bridge and me. ~ Loreena McKennitt ~ (for a Samhain/All Hallow's Eve/Halloween/All Soul's Night theme)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! ~ Charity slogan for UNICEF ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ~ Aleister Crowley
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC) — a bit of pagan expression for Samhain/All Hallow's Eve/Halloween.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
 * 2 Zarbon 04:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
 * 2 Zarbon 04:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.

I am here today, I may not be here tomorrow. But the responsibility to look after national interest is on the shoulder of every citizen of India. I have often mentioned this earlier. Nobody knows how many attempts have been made to shoot me, lathis have been used to beat me. In Bhubaneswar itself, a brickbat hit me. They have attacked me in every possible manner. I do not care whether I live or die. I have lived a long life and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it. ~ Indira Gandhi. On her death anniversary on 31 October
 * 4 Nvvchar (talk) 16:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:54, 30 October 2014 (UTC) but thus far a very weak 2, as I generally much prefer quotes for Halloween on this date.

Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise...Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, from classical history to Hollywood films,... it emerged from the Celtic festival of Samhain (summer's end), picked up elements of the Christian Hallowtide (All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day), arrived in North America as an Irish and Scottish festival, and evolved into an unofficial but large-scale holiday by the early 20th century...Halloween is the definitive history of the most bewitching day of the year, illuminating the intricate history and shifting cultural forces behind this enduring trick-or-treat holiday. ~ Nicholas Rogers
 * 4 --Nvvchar (talk) 03:49, 27 October 2014 (UTC), for Halloween on 31 October
 * 1 for now, but usable ONLY IF the author of Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford University Press, 2003) is clearly identified as a person with a Wikiquote or Wikipedia article 0 until a definite source is found to a clearly identified individual "Nicholas Rogers" — rather than an unsourced quote attributed to an array of potential authors by such name — and then I could rank it a 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:54, 30 October 2014 (UTC) — + revisions ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:15, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC); with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

title: October 31


text:
December 31

December 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * selected by Basil Fawlty

 * 2004
 * Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe... ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne! ~ "Auld Lang Syne" by Robert Burns ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ George Marshall
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself. ~ Henri Matisse (born December 31, 1869)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! ~ Bill Watterson - Final strip of Calvin and Hobbes, published December 31, 1995
 * proposed by Lyle<!-- * 4 Lyle 18:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 4 Kalki 20:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 I hardly think "Calvin and Hobbes" would be a better selection than any of the suggestions...especially not if the quote is just simply "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!"...and? It provokes no sympathy or thought whatsoever. Sorry, although I do like Calvin/Hobbes and other comic strips...I don't think they make for worthwhile representations as QOTD material. The only people who would even find this worthwhile and inspiring are die-hard fans. Zarbon 05:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Many QOTD's are from pop culture, and it is ignorant to dismiss an entire medium of art. Lyle 19:11, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I myself have suggested many quotes from "pop culture" which have been dismissed by Kalki on numerous occasions. I don't need to pinpoint all the occasions where this has happened as they are very numerous. However, bare in mind that I am not rating this low because it is from pop culture, I am rating it low because I don't find anything particularly astounding about this specific quote. Just because it's from Calvin and Hobbes, doesn't make it special. Also, I find it especially obvious that no one will care for it unless they are truly die-hard Calvin and Hobbes fans. I like Garfield and Snoopy...but I'm not going to post every random thing that is said in the strips just because I like them. I mean no negativity, I can show you numerous quotations with actual meaning and thought provocation from pop culture that I have suggested if you would like. Zarbon 01:33, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I really must assert that I have no recall of ever objecting to any quote suggested by anyone merely because it is some form of "pop culture" source. There have been quotes from comic strips, comic books, movies, television shows, popular songs, and electronic games which have been used, some of which I myself have suggested. I have objected to numerous quotes you have suggested because they promote rather shallow authoritarian, nihilistic or partisan perspectives. I acknowledge it is your proper right to suggest what you want, and many of your suggestions have been good ones, but it is also my own and other people's right to rank them what they want. Though I have pointed out that you more than any other regular editor seem to regularly rank quotes ranked highly by others with only a 1 or a 0, that too is your right. It is also your right to assert something extremely shallow like your statement that Calvin's assertion at the "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!" somehow "provokes no sympathy or thought whatsoever" and my right to assert that such a statement is absurd and nonsensical, as many of your arguments have seemed to me to be. It might not provoke much sympathy or thought in you, but I think it can provoke a great deal of sympathy and thought in many people. I would actually like to use more of the closing dialogue of that last comic strip, "Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!” “A new year.. a fresh, clean start! … A day full of possibilitiies” but believe that the final lines which were suggested are probably sufficient, and I don't wish to use too much of a single comic strip, even though the value of the cartoon is arguably not reduced even by quoting most of it. ~ Kalki 00:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I won't deny my low ratings of some as you stated. But I believe that the quotation has to provoke thought and be of some moral value. I don't see the image of a fresh start as a notable quotation. But, I also agree that my suggestions are authoritarian. Authoritarianism is brilliance defined, charismatic and powerful. I wouldn't say partisan, maybe somewhat nihilistic to some degree...but then again...that's what I like and I hope that all forms of thought are explored and dogma dies because maintaining the random form of exploration-esque quotes are what I detest. Mainly, this quote is poor for two reasons. First, because people who aren't fans of Calvin and Hobbes might not like it...and second, because it seriously isn't thought-provoking. And should the quote provoke thought? I believe that yes. It should reaffirm a value of some time. The embarking on a journey or having a fresh start is as simple a thought as any. That's what makes this a weak quotation. And I have made many of my favorite suggestions from many movies, games, comics, etc. Ranging from Dragonball, to Batman, to Star Wars to anything in the middle. But you seem to dismiss many quotations on the grounds that they are "authoritarian". Well, authoritarianism incorporates a beauty in itself. People need to be open to all forms of sayings. It strikes close to the heart of nationalism. I feel the quotes need to be deep, very...very deep in meaning. The other quote you suggested from the same comic strip is better, "Everything familiar has disappeared!" although I'd still prefer to see something else... Zarbon 01:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC) -->

 * 2009
 * The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. ~ George Marshall
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again. ~ Henri Matisse (born 31 December 1869)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~ George Marshall
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * Initial portions of this proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is no freedom without justice. ~ Simon Wiesenthal
 * There was a quotation by him in September, 2005 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:34, 31 December 2017 (UTC) Good quote, but this is a misattribution, in that it did not originate with his uses of it — it is still possibly usable with better sourcing. 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC) (it appears this IS his day of birth — don't know how I had missed this earlier) 1 Kalki 11:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC) Good quote, but no clear relation to the date.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 14:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 21:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 18:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne! ~ Robert Burns ~ (Traditional New Year's Eve song)
 * 1 Kalki 11:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC) 4 ~ Kalki 23:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Downgraded from 4 to 1 as a variant of this has already been used — last year... and which indicates to me I better start updating the date pages more regularly — one of my resolutions for the coming year... ~ Kalki 01:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 14:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state. ~ George Meade
 * 3 Zarbon 05:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 18:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Never fear your enemies, fear your actions. ~ George Meade
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 18:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 30 December 2015 (UTC) I cannot currently find any reliable sources for this attribution — I had intended to use it for QOTD, but cannot do so now. 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC) 3 Kalki 20:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten. ~ Donald E. Westlake Two Much (recent death)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:25, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 30 December 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 30 December 2023 (UTC) *3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 21:18, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 21:18, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC) but with a strong lean toward 3 if extended for context to read:
 * The values of free expression and a reverence for the free press have been our global hallmark, for it is our ability to freely air the truth that keeps our government honest and keeps a people free. Between the mighty and the modest, truth is the great leveler. And so, respect for freedom of the press has always been one of our most important exports.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 3.

title: December 31


text:
June 10

June 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~ Saul Bellow (born 10 June 1915)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * All that you see has appeared because of Love. All shines from Love, All pulses with Love, All flows from Love — No, once again, all is Love! ~ Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (born 10 June 1213)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~ Saul Bellow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ~ E. O. Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. ~ William Ellery Channing ~ (born June 10)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it? ~ Saul Bellow
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. ~ Maurice Sendak
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens. ~ Thelonious Monk
 * selected by

 * 2013

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~ Saul Bellow
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., are themselves the children of distraction. As such, they are peculiarly qualified to approach the distracted multitudes. They will have experienced the seductions as well as the destructiveness of the forces we have been considering here. This is the destructive element in which we do not need to be summoned to immerse ourselves, for we were born to it. ~ Saul Bellow
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things. ~ Maurice Sendak (born June 10, 1928)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 I liked the wild things books when I was young. Zarbon 14:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:41, 5 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 09:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

title: June 10