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May 16

May 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * You say that you are my judge. I don't know if you are — but take care not to judge wrongly, lest you place yourself in great danger. ~ Jehanne Darc (Jeanne d'Arc; Joan of Arc) (canonized 16 May 1920)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. ~ Studs Terkel (born 16 May 1912)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2008
 * Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2009
 * The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment and all the departments of authority, to the unchecked and equal rivalry of all classes of men, at once secures universal contentment, and brings into the highest possible activity all the physical, moral, and social energies of the whole state. ~ William H. Seward
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. ~ William H. Seward (born May 16, 1801)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * selected by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

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

 * 2019

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

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * 3.25. May 16 is the man's birthday. – Illegitimate Barrister 14:37, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 23:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. ~ Adrienne Rich (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:27, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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July 16

July 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * When we wish to correct with advantage and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. ~ Blaise Pascal
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * By the declining day, man is a state of loss, save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. ~ The Qur'an, Surah 103.
 * July 16 2005 is 1 Muharram 1426 in the Islamic calendar, the beginning of the Hijri year.
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * If you build it, he will come. ~ "The Voice" in Field of Dreams (Shoeless Joe Jackson born 16 July 1888)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * You'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
 * proposed by Kalki (date of first publication of The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

 * 2008
 * Ignorance perpetuates itself just as knowledge does. Men write false documents, they preach false doctrine, and those beliefs survive to inspire wickedness in later generations. … Conversely, some men write and teach about the truth, only to be declared heretic by the wicked. In such cases evil has the advantage, for it will do anything to suppress truth, but the good man limits what he will do to suppress falsehood. One might almost make a rule of it: "Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic." ~ Sheri S. Tepper
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that. ~ Sheri S. Tepper
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. ~ Sheri S. Tepper
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye (60th anniversary of publication date in 1951)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for the 70th anniversary of the Trinity explosion 1945.

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, for the 70th anniversary of its publication.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
It's true — a lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. ~ Will Ferrell (born 16 July 1967)
 * 2 Kalki 04:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

For the most part, I don't have too many fears. It's like: Why am I even doing it if I'm not going to enjoy it and just go for it? And that manifests itself in different ways. ~ Will Ferrell (born 16 July 1967)
 * 3 Kalki 01:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 04:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye (first published on this date in 1951)
 * 3 Kalki 01:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean towrd 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts... ~ Sheri S. Tepper
 * 2 Zarbon 11:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Long ago, the people of the world cried out for help. In the reaches of heaven their cry was heard, and a Visitor came in answer to it. The Visitor began helping immediately, but secretly. Now the visitor intends to be known to the people of the world and the people of the world must deal with that knowledge. ~ Sheri S. Tepper
 * 3 Kalki 19:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 3, regarding the anniversary of the Trinity explosion.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Further ideas: The Trinity explosion 1945 Apollo 11 launch 1969

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August 16

August 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~ T. E. Lawrence (born 16 August 1888)
 * proposed by User:Kalki

 * 2006
 * The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. ~ Winston Churchill (said about T. E. Lawrence, born 16 August 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ~ T. E. Lawrence
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practising the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex. ~ T. E. Lawrence
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them. ~ Thomas Fuller (date of death)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent noteworthy legal proceedings.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. ~ Ringo Starr, joined The Beatles that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:45, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
 * 3 Kalki 14:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 02:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ~ Thomas Fuller (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool. ~ George Galloway
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more. ~ T. E. Lawrence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail. ~ T. E. Lawrence
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

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September 16

September 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ Wilhelm Stekel
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A planned life is a dead life. ~ Lauren Bacall (born 16 September 1924)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. ~ Ann Richards (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)
 * proposed by David

 * 2008
 * It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)
 * proposed by Dbiv

 * 2009
 * Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Thou whose deep ways are in the sea, Whose footsteps are not known, To-night a world that turned from Thee Is waiting — at Thy Throne. The towering Babels that we raised Where scoffing sophists brawl, The little Antichrists we praised — The night is on them all. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond.  Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love? ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 * 2 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC) A good quote, which I would rank higher on other days, but it has no clear correlation with the date and thus is not likely to become preferred over any good ones which do.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ~ Lauren Bacall (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Nations, like men, have their infancy. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)

 * 4. David | Talk 21:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 00:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC) Very true, but not profoundly striking of itself.
 * 2 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness, Thoughts without sound ~ Alfred Noyes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:38, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

''Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.'' ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

''Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.'' ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple Breaks, blindly, against the shore. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Ye that follow the vision Of the world's weal afar, Have ye met with derision And the red laugh of war; Yet the thunder shall not hurt you, Nor the battle-storms dismay; Tho' the sun in heaven desert you, "Love will find out the way." ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire "Love will find out the way." ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Getting whatever you want to get, Is like drinking tea from a fishing net. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 N6n 11:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

''Like the dawn upon a dream Slowly through the scented gloom Crept once more the ruddy gleam O'er the friendly nursery room. There, before our waking eyes, Large and ghostly, white and dim, Dreamed the Flower that never dies, Opening wide its rosy rim.'' ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls. ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

''He died and He went down to hell! You know not what you mean. Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green. But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall, We tell you He is risen again, The Lord of Life is risen again, The boughs put forth their tender buds, and Love is Lord of all!'' ~ Alfred Noyes ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 11:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

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October 16

October 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde (born 16 October 1854)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ William O. Douglas
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. ~ William O. Douglas
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ~ William O. Douglas
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults. ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * Used 16 July 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * Used 28 February 2004, selected by Kalki; attributed to Wilde in The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958) by Fritz Heider, p. 269; this has since become dubious, and probably a misattribution: Quote Investigator in "Always Forgive Your Enemies; Nothing Annoys Them So Much" (11 June 2021) found that such attribution appears to have first occurred, without a reliable citation, in Reader's Digest (June 1954).

 * As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * Used 23 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 82.73.85.73 10:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. ~ Wilhelm Keitel (died October 16)
 * 4 because this to me, is one of my three all-time favorite quotes. I have been waiting all year for this quotation and if a rating of 5 were possible, I would give it to this, since the wait has been rather long. Other than 2 other quotes, this quote is highly important to me. For more, please see the September 22 section. I initially suggested this for the date of birth, where ratings of 2 (Kalki), 2 (InvisibleSun), and 2 (UDScott) were given but I am bringing this up here in the hopes that it will make it this year. I really hope it makes it. Again, I've made quite a few suggestions for upcoming years, but I seriously hope this makes it for this year. - Zarbon 03:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Because it is so important to you, I will refrain from rating this time. However for my thoughts on the subject I would direct people to our discussion on september 22. Denji 21:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This evokes qualities and appeals to certain emotions of devotion and loyalty which might be admirable, but this statement itself, to my mind is not admirable at all. I could agree with a statement that asserted "It isn't right to seek to be virtuous only when things are easy", but absolute obedience to the will of any person or group is something I consider not to be virtuous at all, though it is often very easy, comfortable, and convenient to many of those who are profoundly confused about what the paths of true virtue actually impel, and how greatly they can and often must diverge from paths of any form of abject or absolute obedience to anyone. I was inclined to rank this at 1 for a time, because I do believe that if enough people do strongly endorse such profoundly stupid views, I do believe their voices should be heard. Yet reflecting upon the profound contempt I have for such extremely confused attitudes, and for many others which I would also be inclined to rank at 0, I finally resolved that there certainly are attitudes and expressions which I certainly do not believe are at all worth noting as a quote of the day, and this is one of them. If this does end up clearly ranking highest for the day, under the current guidelines, it will probably still be selected for use despite my own protests and objections. Even so, I firmly believe that the worship of any form of abject or absolute obedience to any person or group, is certainly never a virtue, even when the views they express are actually virtuous, and to my own views this quote is testimony from someone whose ideas and loyalties were far from that. To me the quote itself remains an expression of a profoundly contemptible attitude, by a person who lived to a great extent a profoundly contemptible life, in service to a profoundly contemptible cause. Though I recognize that some situations exist where there are conflicts and challenges which give advantages to those who have some form of limited obedience to others, this expression of total worship of the traditions of slavery, by an enslaved mind who seeks to be a master over the enslaved minds of others, is not even a view which could ever be endorsed by someone who is entirely sane and rational. I expect it is a view which many who have much capacity for much good sense brutally beaten out of them by others or by other foul circumstances might come to endorse most avidly. I can pity such people for their fates and their very limited views of things, but I certainly cannot agree with them upon such matters. ~ Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You gave the quote a 2 on another date, why the change of heart...also, the rating of 0 isn't even possible unless the quote has nothing to do with the person's date of birth or date of death. It is highly noteworthy that we should maintain the consensus of rating the quotes on the basis of 1-4 and 0 only if they are worthless/useless or completely out of context and date. This quote is neither of those things. If this were the case, then I'd give everything else a 0 for this date just to have this quote make it. - Zarbon 03:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe this is a very climactic quote and loyalty at times of difficulty is an admirable quality. Historical quotations have incorporated powerful imagery with sincere and dire loyalty. I like this quote a lot. Waheedone 04:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Again I must assert that I perceive there to be an extreme confusion of concepts evident in the quote and in the comments about it. Loyalty can certainly be a virtue, when it is well informed, and not simply automatic or blind, but loyalty involves some levels of proper autonomy and freedom of will, and even great forms of fairness and equality which are not intrinsic to most notions of obedience. As the term "obedience" is usually used, it involves some presumptions of inherent superiority and inferiority on the part of the participants, which I am generally loathe to accept, let alone presume. I might possibly have ranked the quote higher in the past somewhere because I was less reluctant to let some rather foolish expressions be heard, but I do not know of any official statements anywhere where the rankings used on these pages indicate anything other than the assessments of those who choose to rank them, and I certainly don't believe that I have ever made such statements anywhere as constrain people's right to use the zero ranking on a quotation that they simply abhor. It is a ranking I certainly rarely use, even on remarks which I do abhor strongly, usually giving them a 1, but I thought it proper to be as fully honest as possible in indicating my own assessments of this remark. It is one I do not wish to use, and truly believe not generally suitable for a Wikiquote QOTD. Though I might concede there could conceivably be some ironic use of it I could accept someday, where I might rank it a 1 or 2, I cannot think of any particular situations in which I would ever be very eager to use it. ~ Kalki 13:29, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 While virtue is to be found in loyalty, devotion, and self-sacrifice, appeal to obedience in itself is dehumanizing. ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0. This quote belongs on the subject's DOB, September 22. There is no reason to repeat it for his DOD. This is not a practice to be encouraged. - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Be of good comfort...play the man...we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace...as I trust shall never be put out. ~ Hugh Latimer (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This has already been used. ~ Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you. ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; this attitude can be used to provide a stark contrast to that presented by Wilhelm Keitel, above.
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you! Be self-sufficient! Why, in the end, does the opinion of the whole world trouble you, if you do what you should? ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; this attitude can be used to provide a stark contrast to that presented by Wilhelm Keitel, above.
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago. ~ Michael Collins
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Not very meaningful without context.
 * 2 if the quote is expanded to "Think — what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago." - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

My art cannot be bought. I will not exchange my feelings for earthly treasure. ~ Otto Mueller
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. ~ John Mayer
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day. ~ John Mayer
 * 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 02:16, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 19:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 02:16, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 02:16, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 02:16, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 02:12, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 02:12, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

title: October 16


text:
November 16

November 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ Robert Nozick, (born 16 November 1938)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. ~ Alan Watts (died 16 November 1973)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ~ John F. Kennedy, (Speech made on 16 November 1961)
 * proposed by Jeff Q

 * 2008
 * You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. ~ Chinua Achebe (born 16 November 1930)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2009
 * There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. ~ Nnamdi Azikiwe
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * There will not be one kind of community existing and one kind of life led in utopia. Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions. Some kinds of communities will be more attractive to most than others; communities will wax and wane. People will leave some for others or spend their whole lives in one. Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others. ~ Robert Nozick
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Some anarchists have claimed not merely that we would be better off without a state, but that any state necessarily violates people's moral rights and hence is intrinsically immoral. Our starting point then, though nonpolitical, is by intention far from nonmoral. Moral philosophy sets the background for, and boundaries of, political philosophy. What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus. ~ Robert Nozick
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; stanzas of "To the Moon", in regard of the Artemis I lunar mission scheduled to launch early in the morning on this date.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you may find many unexpected things. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto (date of birth)
 * Quote found at: Miyamoto Shrine

 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 06:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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The real historical entity that is becoming imminent is the human soul. The monkey body has served to carry us to this moment of release, and it will always serve as a focus of self-image, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki 09:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC) Though McKenna often rambles with all manner of radical or trivial conjectures, and I find many of his pronouncements, like some by Timothy Leary, bizarre or irresponsible, I yet find there are also often kernels of significant truth and important ideas among them as well. I did not add him to the suggestions earlier today because I did not have time to fully scan much of my material on him, but want to have at least a few suggestions ready for next year.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever. … One exists in eternity, one has become eternal … One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki 09:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 06:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times, he is immortal. ~ Nnamdi Azikiwe
 * 4 Zarbon 06:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC) 2 Kalki 17:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 2 or 3
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 03:03, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Pray assign me any part in the government you please; but remember that no single man can bear the whole burden of Empire — I need a colleague, or perhaps several colleagues. ~ Tiberius
 * 3 Zarbon 06:28, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out. ~ W. C. Handy
 * 3 Zarbon 06:28, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki 17:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 06:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki 21:55, 14 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would extend this to:
 * We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It's an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we're talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not a religious sensibility, the religious sensibility. Not built on some con-game spun out by eunuchs, but based on the symbiotic relationship that was in place for our species for fifty thousand years before the advent of history, writing, priestcraft and propaganda.
 * We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It's an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we're talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not a religious sensibility, the religious sensibility. Not built on some con-game spun out by eunuchs, but based on the symbiotic relationship that was in place for our species for fifty thousand years before the advent of history, writing, priestcraft and propaganda.

We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliment, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon. ~ Terence McKenna
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) * 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC) but still with a very strong lean toward 4 — preferring a few by Robert Nozick this year.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights) ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress? ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding. 2. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding. 3. No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Though the framework is libertarian and laissez-faire,individual communities within it need not be, and perhaps no community within it will choose to be so. Thus, the characteristics of the framework need not pervade the individual communities. In this laissez-faire system it could turn out that though they are permitted, there are no actually functioning "capitalist" institutions; or that some communities have them and others don't or some communities have some of them, or what you will. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision? The minimal state treats us as inviolate individuals, who may not be used in certain ways by others as means or tools or instruments or resources; it treats us as persons having individual right with the dignity this constitutes. Treating us with respect by respecting our rights, it allows us, individually or with whom we please, to choose our life and to realize our ends and our conception of ourselves, insofar as we can, aided by the voluntary cooperation of other individuals possessing the same dignity. How dare any state or group of individuals do more? Or less? ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern. ~ Robert Nozick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

So often we need a whole lifetime in order to change our life, we think a great deal, weigh things up and vacillate, then we go back to the beginning, we think and think, we displace ourselves on the tracks of time with a circular movement, like those clouds of dust, dead leaves, debris, that have no strength for anything more, better by far that we should live in a land of hurricanes. ~ José Saramago
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 20:19, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:10, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

title: November 16


text:
December 16

December 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Fear... can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ Philip K. Dick (born 16 December 1928)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ George Santayana (born 16 December 1863)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (Date of birth)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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; official release date of the film.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ Jane Austen (born 16 December 1775)
 * used 26 August 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana
 * used 11 February 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~ Mao Zedong in the Little Red Book, published in Beijing that day.
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 but 4 on correct date because the assurance of artillery is a very true factor to rely on. However, I'd prefer to see this on his date of birth (December 26). Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I would also like to mention that MosheZadka gave this one a 3 on the date of September 9. Zarbon 16:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven (Date of birth)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Liquidice5 18:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is very true. It is easy to search for error in others, but to find it in oneself is majestic and remains a difficult task, and for someone of nobility, that much harder. Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ~ William Somerset Maugham (Date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven (born December 16, 1770)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is rather true. Artists who want their work kept in its originality will not submit to any offers, because their art is who they are. Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature. ~ V. S. Pritchett (born December 16, 1900)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (born 16 December 1917)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 16:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

If I had know it was harmless, I would have killed it myself. Philip K. Dick
 * 3 Zarbon 03:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear. ~ John Selden
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC) A bit too cynical to be true.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. ~ John Selden
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. ~ Margaret Mead
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ~ George Santayana
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. ~ George Santayana
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. ~ George Santayana
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ~ George Santayana
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~ George Santayana
 * 3 with a strong lean towards a 4. Because the fighting continues for the living. Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. ~ George Santayana
 * 3 Zarbon 17:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. ~ Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Great artists are always far-seeing. They easily avoid the big stumbling blocks of fact. They rely on their own simplicity and vision. ~ V. S. Pritchett
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ~ V. S. Pritchett
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. ~ Philip K. Dick
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Ramp hawkers were peddling “methods,” low priced sure-fire theories guaranteed to predict bottle twitches and beat the whole Minimax game. The hawkers were ignored by the hurrying throngs of people; anybody with a genuine system of prediction would be using it, not selling it. ~ Philip K. Dick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

In a society of criminals … the innocent man goes to jail. ~ Philip K. Dick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. ~ Philip K. Dick
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

(Date of birth)

 * 3 Evrik (talk) 17:47, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:26, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:57, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Cky melissa

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User talk:UR Satyal~enwikiquote

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User talk:Priandoyo

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User talk:Kaempfer

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User talk:Mixedtape

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User talk:Getmanish~enwikiquote

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User talk:Virak~enwikiquote

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User talk:AnAnTa

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User talk:Victormoj

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User talk:Simonsaunders

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User talk:JimTS~enwikiquote

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User talk:Manubhasi~enwikiquote

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User talk:Alex2005

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User talk:Frozen~enwikiquote

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User talk:Natalie~enwikiquote

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User talk:Nex9k9

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User talk:Ibrahimfaisal~enwikiquote

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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title: User talk:Ibrahimfaisal~enwikiquote


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User talk:Wynand~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Wynand~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Googums

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title: User talk:Googums


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User talk:Sickelmikel~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Sickelmikel~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Ewalden

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title: User talk:Ewalden


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User talk:VashtheStampede

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title: User talk:VashtheStampede


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User talk:Ladida

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Cast list

 * Hi. I don't mean to be mean or anything because I hate removing someone else's work but I do not think the "cast" section should be in Prison Break or any other television shows' Wikiquote articles since the purpose of these articles are to provide quotes and not other information about the show. -- Ladida 06:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I certainly don't want to get into an edit war with anyone either, but I have restored the cast section to Prison Break once again. There has been an ongoing dialogue about this issue, but as of now, the cast section is included in the TV show template. If you would like to argue the point, feel free (there's some discussion on my Talk page already, or you can do it on the Template's talk page as well). For now, please leave the cast on the page, until or unless the argument is settled without its inclusion in the template. Thanks. ~ UDScott 12:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

title: User talk:Ladida


text:
User talk:Olieng665

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title: User talk:Olieng665


text:
User talk:Spirit-undead~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Spirit-undead~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Gelacio

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title: User talk:Gelacio


text:
User talk:Tootsmcgill

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title: User talk:Tootsmcgill