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March 12

March 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ André Gide
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. ~ Jack Kerouac (born 12 March 1922)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." ~ Edward Albee (born 12 March 1928)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~ Jack Kerouac (born 12 March 1922)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~ Jack Kerouac
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth and the bosom of the deep with endless successions of life and happiness. ~ William Buckland
 * proposed by Fossil

 * 2010
 * Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? ~ Jack Kerouac
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh. ~ Jack Kerouac
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * With the improving of here and now comes the stark realisation that here and now is all we have. Each of us has only this one brief experience with the bright light of consciousness in that endless dark night of eternity and must make the most of it. Doing this means we must respect the existence of everyone else and the most criminal act imaginable is the terminating of one of these conscious existences. ~ Harry Harrison
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. ~ Jack Kerouac in On The Road
 * Used 15 November 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. ~ Jack Kerouac

 * 1 for unsigned suggestion. Zarbon 05:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind. ~ Jack Kerouac
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC) but trimmed to begin at "Anonymity in the world of men..." though I might rank it a 3 if trimmed to simply state "What's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind."
 * 2 In its entirety Zarbon 04:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. ~ Jack Kerouac
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC) but only if trimmed a bit to start at "I looked at the cracked high ceiling..."
 * 1 Zarbon 04:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars. Judging by past experiences, working for peace now would be as ineffective as ever. It's a law of nature. ~ Wilhelm Frick (born March 12)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. ~ Wilhelm Frick (born March 12)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC) I cannot agree that Hitler was a genius — he was simply a very bold person, driven by bigotry and arrogance into very brutal paths, in ways tragic for himself and millions of others.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. ~ Edward Albee
 * 2 because one can understand the laughable but does not have to laugh about it. Zarbon 15:36, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. ~ Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face from The Dark Knight.
 * 4 Two-Face is my favorite character in Batman history. He's the enthralling image of dual personalities, both mesmerizing and captivating, in all his esteem. This quotation strongly describes his ascent into a schizophrenic state of mind, a double entendre of truth and chance, corrupted by nothing but chance alone. I truly love Two-Face. Zarbon 19:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:54, 2 March 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC) I can't at this point consider this QOTD material. I no longer know why this was suggested for this date, but though I like the statement in the context of the film, as it has a striking ring, and stoic implications relative to the story, the statement itself is in many ways highly fallacious. Even as a young child I knew enough of life to reject much of the apparent validity of such statements as these as false and at very best merely apparent. I have not lived or observed so little as to accept so darkly cynical and dreary a dictum as this as if it were a dear truth — there are heroes who live long lives and who never become villains — nor even appear to do so, to lucid minds. I might someday rank this higher, but currently don't even know how it relates to the date. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:54, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

It's not about what I want, it's about what's fair! You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair. ~ Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face from The Dark Knight.
 * 3 and strong lean toward a 4. Another powerful image depicted by Two-Face. The raw truth of chance in life is magnificently depicted here. I love this character and all that he stands for. Zarbon 19:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC) but my lean is toward 1 — because I hold that there are many very dangerous delusions at work in this statement, though I can accept that the character speaking them was in many ways understandably impelled into them.
 * Yes, he was impelled but I really love the quote, it's from one of my alltime favorite scenes in the flick aside from the one I suggested above. I was really hoping that at least one of his quotes would make it this year. Well, there's always next year. - Zarbon 03:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. ~ William Buckland
 * 3 Fossil 20:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments. ~ William Buckland
 * 3 Fossil 20:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. ~ Irving Layton
 * 2 and lean toward 3. Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC) but my lean is toward 1.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ~ Irving Layton
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

My neighbour doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ~ Irving Layton
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Richard Steele
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. ~ Richard Steele
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. ~ Mary Howitt
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers— Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours. ~ Mary Howitt
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. ~ George Berkeley
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. ~ George Berkeley
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac in On the Road
 * 3 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The gods too are fond of a joke. ~ Socrates
 * 3 Kalki 17:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4, but probably extended for context; (originally placed on this date's suggestions as an attribution to Edward Albee)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

You've still got the same old words that have been killing people since the birth of the human race. A "cowardly peace," that's a good one. Peace means not being at war, not fighting. How can you have a cowardly not-fighting. What are you trying to hide with this semantic confusion? Your real reasons? I can't blame you for being ashamed of them — I would be. Why don't you just come out and say you are keeping the war going because you enjoy killing? Seeing things die makes you and your murderers happy, and you want to make them happier still! ~ Harry Harrison
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment. ~ Harry Harrison
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

You're not a homicidal, I checked that on your record before I came out after you. That is why I know you will join the Corps and get a great deal of pleasure out of going after the other kind of criminal who is sick, not just socially protesting. The man who can kill and enjoy it. ~ Harry Harrison
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

And of course the most amazing thing about reality, which we should never taken for granted, is that we can understand any of it. ~ Tony Piro - Calamities of Nature - (March 12, 2012 - Fairies - final episode - alt.text)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

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April 12

April 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ~ Pierre Trudeau (on Canadian relations with the US)
 * selected by Poor Yorick

 * 2005
 * A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss. ~ Mahavira (599 or 549 BC) Mahavira Jayanti 2005 celebrating Mahavira's birth (Cregorian calendar and the traditional Jain calculations do not correspond precisely from year to year).
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ Tom Clancy (born 12 April 1947)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. ~ Tom Clancy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. - Henry Clay (born 12 April 1777)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2009)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..." ~ Tom Clancy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. There are some ten thousand religious sects — each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief. And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why — which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive. ~ Jon Krakauer
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being whoever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg... that's when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around. Anything that gets information to people is good. ~ Tom Clancy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020:

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to Easter Sunday 2020, by the Western calendar.

 * 2021:

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity — unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. - Henry Clay
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:13, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 13:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Slow justice is not justice. ~ Federico Hernández Denton
 * 3 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. ~ Jon Krakauer
 * 3 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine. ~ Swami Narayanananda
 * 2 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Love is not lust. The two are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds. ~ Swami Narayanananda
 * 3 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

If women could be fair and yet not fond, Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, I would not marvel that they make men bond By service long to purchase their good will; But when I see how frail those creatures are, I laugh that men forget themselves so far. ~ Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
 * 2 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death. ~ David Letterman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. ~ Josh Billings
 * 2 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 1, as this is not actually Billings DOB — it is the 21st not the 12th.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God. ~ John Hagee
 * 4 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC) Though I accept that there are absolute truths to be sought and reckoned by, far beyond concerns about any pleasing or displeasing of others, because I do, I cannot accept so absolute and thus false a dichotomy as this statement implies.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right? ~ John Hagee
 * 2 Zarbon 15:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC) Though the wisest usually aim to be polite and politically prudent, they don't seek to have themselves or anyone else constrained to any extremely shallow notions of "correctness" as are presumptively pre-defined and delineated by many — whether they are actually called that or not. Too shallow and narrow a conception of what is either "right" or "correct" for everyone, is galling to a mind which respects the principles of both Liberty and Justice, and the interplay that arises between them.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:38, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:51, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:51, 13 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:53, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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title: April 12


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May 12

May 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. ~ Good Omens (by Gaiman & Pratchett)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ~ Florence Nightingale (born 12 May 1820)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ Douglas MacArthur, "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory address to West Point on 12 May 1962.
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,— Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ (born 12 May 1828)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ~ Florence Nightingale
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ Florence Nightingale
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ~ John Dryden, based on "Ode XXIX" of Horace ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned. ~ Florence Nightingale
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander (L Neil Smith born 12 May 1946)
 * proposed by bystander (L Neil Smith born 12 May 1946)

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon, Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day. ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ (date of birth)
 * 3 Aphaia 21:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. ~ John Dryden ~ died on May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700)
 * 3 Aphaia 21:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

To God alone may women complain without insulting Him! ~ Florence Nightingale
 * 2 because to complain to anyone else would in turn backfire and be viewed as an insult. Zarbon 23:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

''From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres.'' ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~
 * 3 Kalki 09:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Still we say as we go, — "Strange to think by the way Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day." ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~
 * 3 Kalki 09:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. ~ Henry Cabot Lodge (born 1850-05-12)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope. ~ L. Neil Smith
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:54, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever till the end of time... But He loves you. ~ George Carlin
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC) (George Chapman DOD)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too. ~ John Masefield
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:24, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

title: May 12


text:
July 12

July 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S. Truman
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ misattributed to Bill Cosby, (born 12 July 1937)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. ~ Desiderius Erasmus (died 12 July 1536)
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2007
 * There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. ~ Henry David Thoreau (born 12 July 1817)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ~ William Osler
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ~ William Osler
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth? ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent spaceflight in his own spacecraft.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * used 29 July 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * used 18 December 2003, selected by Kalki

 * In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * used 6 September 2004, selected by Kalki

 * There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * used 17 November 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society … may unexpectedly come forth … to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! … such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. … Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ~ Henry David Thoreau in Walden
 * used 6 May 2007, proposed by Aphaia

Suggestions
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. - Desiderius Erasmus died today
 * 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 14:06 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. - Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
 * 4 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 14:06 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)
 * 2 Aphaia
 * 0 Jeff Q (talk) 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC). Don't know if this was supposed to be ironic, but it seems a rather seriously taken POV these days, to the point of ushering in a new Dark Age (IMHO).
 * If we do go for this quote, we really should include the title of the work (which I've added, thanks to InvisibleSun), lest we encourage folks to use it without irony. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 08:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC) I think this quote will confuse main page viewers if promoted.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. ~ Henry David Thoreau (birth date)
 * 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Aphaia 21:29, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

You've been rejected more times than Doctor Octopus has arms! ~ Gregory Helms
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 04:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 16:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. ~ Gregory Helms
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 16:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC) Needs source.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. ~ William Osler
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials. ~ William Osler
 * 3 Kalki 19:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. ~ William Osler
 * 3 Kalki 19:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ~ William Osler
 * 3 Kalki 19:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. ~ William Osler
 * 3 Kalki 19:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. ~ William Osler
 * 3 Kalki 19:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:39, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:39, 9 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

title: July 12


text:
August 12

August 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ Adlai Stevenson

 * 2004
 * There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. ~ Washington Irving

 * 2005
 * Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ~ George Soros (born 12 August 1930)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. ~ Erwin Schrödinger
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Faith plays an important role in an open society. Exactly because our understanding is imperfect, we cannot base our decisions on knowledge alone. We need to rely on beliefs, religious or otherwise, to help us make decisions. But we must remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong so that we can correct our mistakes. Otherwise, we are bound to be wrong. ~ George Soros
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated. ~ Edith Hamilton
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. ~ Edith Hamilton
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ~ George Soros
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us? Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war. We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds. Crime requires police work, not military action. ~ George Soros
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to her designation as Joe Biden's pick for VP.

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
$$ H(t) \left| \psi (t) \right\rangle = i \hbar {\partial\over\partial t} \left| \psi (t) \right\rangle$$ ~ Erwin Schrödinger, born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 121a0012 02:51, July 21, 2005 (UTC) (much too obscure)
 * 1 likewise too obscure
 * Unsigned vote! Also: too obscure? Schrödinger's equation is how the world works :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:06, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry unsigned was mine, it might well be how the world works but, like all equations, without a definition of notation & terms it is essentially a meaningless arrangement of letters & symbols AllanHainey 07:27, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 - Amar 15:43, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 17:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC) Great equation, but totally indecipherable for most people.
 * 0 Zarbon 15:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black. - Henry Ford. Model T built this day.
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts. ~ Erwin Schrödinger
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:53, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: hopefully this is less scary. Yay cats :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:53, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 acceptable, but still a bit obscure for most. Psi-functions and the context of the "dead cat" are not very plain.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Markets reduce everything, including human beings and nature, to commodities. ~ George Soros (date of birth)
 * 0 — withdrawing this from nomination, as a misattribution now sourced to Marshall Fishwick ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:43, 12 August 2017 (UTC) 3 Kalki 17:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

If you ask a stupid question,you will get a stupid answer. ~ Anon
 * ~ User:Acs4b - User
 * 0 Kalki 13:18, 11 August 2007 (UTC) No clear relation to the date, and not a standard rendering of the English proverb "Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer."
 * 0 Zarbon 15:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. ~ Edith Hamilton
 * 3 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ~ Edith Hamilton
 * 2 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I'm sure it's not the case, but this sounds ("nothing less than pain transmuted into exultation by the alchemy of poetry") like a poor writer trying to make a sentence "intense" by dedicated use of a thesaurus.

But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
 * 2 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC) But might prefer to trim it or extend it slightly
 * ~ Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I don't much like the way this stand-alone quote begins with "but," it distracts my attention from the quote wondering what came before (I know the quote does stand well on its own, but perhaps trim as Kalki says?).

Man is not dead when he is cold, stiff, pulseless, breathless, and even showing signs of decomposition; he is not dead when buried, nor afterward, until a certain point is reached. That point is, when the vital organs have become so decomposed, that if reanimated, they could not perform their customary functions; when the mainspring and cogs of the machine, so to speak, are so eaten away by rust, that they would snap upon the turning of the key. Until that point is reached, the astral body may be caused, without miracle, to reenter its former tabernacle, either by an effort of its own will, or under the resistless impulse of the will of one who knows the potencies of nature and how to direct them. The spark is not extinguished, but only latent -- latent as the fire in the flint, or the heat in the cold iron. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
 * 3 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Bit long/wordy, but an interesting formulation/concept.

Science tells us that heat may be shown to develop electricity, electricity produce heat; and magnetism to evolve electricity, and vice versa. Motion, they tell us, results from motion itself, and so on, ad infinitum. This is the A B C of occultism and of the earliest alchemists. The indestructibility of matter and force being discovered and proved, the great problem of eternity is solved. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
 * 3 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2/3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I'm probably not allowed to do that, but I keep wavering back and forth and can't decide.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. ~ George Soros
 * 3 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

My peculiarity is that I don't have a particular style of investing or, more exactly, I try to change my style to fit the conditions. ~ George Soros
 * 2 Zarbon 14:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC) There is nothing particularly quotable here, I wouldn't even consider this a "peculiarity."

Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at an inflection point are we rewarded. ~ George Soros
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. ~ George Soros
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money. But I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn't made money: My ideas would not have gotten much play. ~ George Soros
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 10 August 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 10 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 13:08, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 3Zarbon (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

title: August 12


text:
September 12

September 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ Niels Bohr

 * 2004
 * The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan

 * 2005
 * The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ Stanisław Lem (born 12 September 1921)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ Stanisław Lem
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at. ~ Jesse Owens
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard to the anniversary of his death.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems — neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken (used on 17 May 2004)

 * One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken (used 20 August 2004)

 * Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ Stanisław Lem (used 29 March 2006)

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ H. L. Mencken
 * All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
 * Used 1 April 2017; proposed by

Suggestions
Dalton McGuinty. He's an evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet. (sorry) ~ Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (from a press release, released this day)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1. Quite funny but not really very thought-provoking. David | Talk 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
 * 3 Kalki 09:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
 * 3 Zarbon 19:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order... ~ Stanisław Lem
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had. ~ Stanisław Lem
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for — obviously— what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?. ~ Stanisław Lem
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

We have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable. ~ Stanisław Lem
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: September 12


text:
October 12

October 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~ Christopher Reeve
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. ~ Kristen Bell as "Veronica" in Veronica Mars episode "Meet John Smith" (originally aired 12 October 2004)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. ~ Christopher Columbus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. ~ Edith Stein (born 12 October 1891)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The concept which assumes that everything in the Church is irrevocably set for all times appears to me to be a false one. It would be naive to disregard that the Church has a history; the Church is a human institution and like all things human, was destined to change and evolve; likewise, its development takes place often in the form of struggles. ~ Edith Stein
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ~ Aleister Crowley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle. ~ Aleister Crowley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened. ~ Edith Stein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for the Yom Kippur solemnities of this year.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019
 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything. ~ Luciano Pavarotti
 * used 8 September 2007, proposed by Kalki

 * There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. ~ Aleister Crowley ~
 * used 31 October 2007, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. ~ Aleister Crowley
 * 3 Kalki 08:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to. ~ Luciano Pavarotti
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

As a bricklayer I tried to build my walls straight, as a policeman I tried to arrest criminals, and as a judge I tried to bring people to trial when there was good reason to do so. ~ Antonio Di Pietro
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 --ᘙ (talk) 09:16, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

title: October 12


text:
November 12

November 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The Enlightened take things Lightly. ~ Principia Discordia
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. ~ Bahá'u'lláh (born 12 November 1817)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (born 12 November 1815)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods. ~ Norman Mailer (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ Bahá'u'lláh (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure. ~ Bahá'u'lláh
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way. ~ Joseph McCabe
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki in response to his recent death.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming. ~ Colin Powell, resigned that day.

 * 2 Kalki 08:53, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ~ Harry Blackmun, born that day

 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ~ Joseph McCabe
 * 3 Zarbon 04:22, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * 2 Zarbon 04:22, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

India and China offer intriguing mirror images. Modern India has long been open politically and, until recently, closed economically. Modern China has opened economically, but remains politically closed. The comparison reveals that, while politics and economics can never fully be separated, political openness is a better guarantor of long-term stability than economic openness. ~ Ian Bremmer
 * 2 Zarbon 04:22, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

We have a propensity for starting and joining all kinds of organisations, the result was that we were spending more time in conferences than implementing the decisions. ~ Benjamin Mkapa
 * 2 Zarbon 04:22, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:02, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

OR, perhaps trimmed to just the first lines:

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

title: November 12


text:
December 12

December 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life. ~ Richard Pryor (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ~ Gustave Flaubert (Date of birth)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. … I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. ~ William Lloyd Garrison
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Klaatu barada nikto! ~ Patricia Neal as "Helen Benson" in The Day the Earth Stood Still
 * (The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), the remake of the classic movie, which also uses the line is opening in wide release on 12·12·2008)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. ~ Gustave Flaubert
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~ Gustave Flaubert
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * It seems to me that understanding that our theories are the source of all our conflicts would go a long way in helping people with different belief systems to get along. ~ Michael Gazzaniga
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ~ Frank Sinatra, born that day
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

That which is not just is not law. ~ William Lloyd Garrison (Date of birth)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 23:11, 11 December 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 19:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC) Though Garrison used this phrase, he was quoting Algernon Sydney: "That which is not just is not law, and that which is not law ought not to be obeyed." I have ranked this a 4 for 7 December, the date of Sydney's execution.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Robert Browning (Date of death)
 * 4 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 for this date, as this a mis-attribution... it is widely attributed to Nolan Bushnell (Founder of Atari), not to Browning.
 * 0 - InvisibleSun 23:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 0 for the reason stated above Zarbon 16:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

We should have known better after the first war. ~ Gerd von Rundstedt
 * 3 Zarbon 04:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ~ Gustave Flaubert
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:26, 10 December 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~ Gustave Flaubert
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:26, 10 December 2012 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

title: December 12


text:
January 13

January 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ~ Anthony de Mello
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. ~ Émile Zola (J'accuse published 13 January 1898)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. ~ Edmund White (born January 13, 1940)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
 * proposed by Kalki (recent death)

 * 2009
 * All religions speak about death during this life on earth. Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. ~ Edmund Spenser
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real meaning of the word; truth which is not merely theoretical, not simply a word, but truth that can be realized in practice. The meaning behind these words may be explained as follows: By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times. This liberation can indeed be very great. All men desire it and strive after it. But it cannot be attained without the first liberation, a lesser liberation. The great liberation is liberation from influences outside us. The lesser liberation is liberation from influences within us. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Sometimes I look at the battered exteriors of apartment buildings in New York and think how these sorry shells have housed such a long procession of styles. The money! The effort! One tenant mirrors everything, the next panels the walls, the third lines them with mylar, the fourth turns to toile de Jouy, the fifth to pegboard or handblocked rice paper. The expensive if often shoddy interiors installed only to be dismantled, the exterior left untouched as it turns yet another shade sootier — this transience seems a fitting emblem for the way we stay up-to-date without ever changing. ~ Edmund White
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 Ottawahitech (talk) 00:25, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger — it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable. ~ Edmund White
 * 3 Kalki 00:06, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. ~ Edmund Spenser
 * 2 Zarbon 06:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Remember your self always and everywhere. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
 * 3 Kalki 15:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold, That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it By any ridling skill, or commune wit. At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end, Another yron dore, on which was writ, Be not too bold. ~ Edmund Spenser ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:39, 30 January 2017 (UTC) but include the lines: "And as she lookt about, she did behold,/ How over that same dore was likewise writ," and maybe end with an exclamation point: "Be not too bold!".

Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please. ~ Edmund Spenser
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 12:41, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

title: January 13


text:
February 13

February 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * In this moment, I need to be needed, With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked, In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted, 'Cause I love to be loved, I love to be loved. ~ Peter Gabriel (born 13 February 1950)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Life is what it is, and you take what's handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully you'll be successful, but I just don't spend too much time worrying about that. ~ Jerry Springer (born 13 February 1944)
 * proposed by User:Liquidice5

 * 2007
 * Every man's life (and … every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal … love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. ~ Eleanor Farjeon (born 13 February 1881)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word! ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * He could not be captured, He could not be bought, His running was rhythm, His standing was thought; With one eye on sorrow And one eye on mirth, He galloped in heaven And gambolled on earth And only the poet With wings to his brain Can mount him and ride him Without any rein, The stallion of heaven, The steed of the skies, The horse of the singer Who sings as he flies. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Some say the Gods are just a myth but guess Who I've been dancing with... The Great God Pan is alive! ~ Mike Scott ~
 * proposed by Kalki for the first day of the ancient 3 day celebration of Lupercalia

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * Used 23 January 2004, selected by Kalki

 * It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * Used 25 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
''Sweet the rain's new fall, Sunlit from heaven, Like the first dewfall On the first grass. Praise for the sweetness Of the wet garden Sprung in completeness Where his feet pass.'' ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

''Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.'' ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. ~ William Shockley (born 1910 February 13)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

title: February 13


text:
March 13

March 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ Joseph Priestley (born 13 March 1733)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ Hugh Walpole (born 13 March 1884)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane... something sacred shows itself to us … something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Don’t give up! I believe in you all A person’s a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! ~ Dr. Seuss ~ (from Horton Hears a Who!, the movie adaptation of which is opening tomorrow)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; quote from the Winner of Best Picture as well as several other major categories at the 95th Academy Awards.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * 3 because it's what you do that matters...actions speak louder than words, and in this case, actions are remembered, unfettered by the mortal body. Zarbon 00:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. ~ Percival Lowell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 21:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Some things in life are flexible and friendly. They realise that a brittle nature does nothing for their popularity, and so adopt an admirable willingness to change. Thus our lives are enriched as we coax these considerate allies into wonderful new forms without disturbing their fundamental chemistry. Take for example: The Truth. ~ David Baboulene
 * 3 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Freedom is a noble thing! Great happiness does freedom bring. All solace to a man it gives; He lives at ease that freely lives. ~ John Barbour
 * 2 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

For love is of such potent might That of misfortune it makes light. ~ John Barbour
 * 3 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 21:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality — an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution. Myth, then, is always an account of a "creation"; it relates how something was produced, began to be. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:20, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 12 March 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC); in regard of his recent death.

title: March 13


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April 13

April 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson (born 13 April 1743 (N.S.))
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * History says don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells. ~ Seamus Heaney ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. ~ Guy Fawkes
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Nuktut

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun in 2007 in a shorter form; a more extensive form proposed in 2018 by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * used 21 December 2003, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea. ~ Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The fact is that serious trials and fearless investigations often are the cause of great division, and rightly so. ~ Christopher Hitchens (born April 13, 1949)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. ~ Seamus Heaney
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. ~ Garry Kasparov
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2. Would not include the first two words. - InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky. ~ Garry Kasparov
 * 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC) 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 4 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~ Eudora Welty
 * 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:17, 3 December 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 13:31, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 05:42, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

 * Originally suggested at 21 March, but also moved here as a more appropriate date.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ~ Samuel Ullman
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:16, 21 March 2020 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC), with but corrected to read:
 * Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

 * Nec tumulum curo. Sepelit natura relictos.
 * I want no tomb; for Nature doth provide For outcast bodies burial. ~ Gaius Maecenas (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Debilem facito manu, debilem pede, coxo, tuber adstrue gibberum, lubricos quate dentis: vita dum superest, bene est.
 * Fashion me with a palsied hand, Weak of foot, and a cripple; Build upon me a crook-backed hump; Shake my teeth till they rattle; All is well, if my life remains. Save, oh, save it, I pray you, Though I sit on the piercing cross! ~ Gaius Maecenas (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

title: April 13