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September 8

September 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Dare to be naïve. ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ~ George Eliot
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ David O. McKay, (born 8 September 1873)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ Peter Sellers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * 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 (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. ~ Siegfried Sassoon (born September 8, 1886)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * What voice revisits me this night? What face To my heart’s room returns? From the perpetual silence where the grace Of human sainthood burns Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal? I know not. Only I feel His influence undiminished And his life’s work, in me and many, unfinished. ~ Siegfried Sassoon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide And something to fear And I try so hard to keep it inside So no one can hear.  "Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry."  ~ Aimee Mann ~ (born 8 September 1960)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! ~ Peter Sellers
 * 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 DanielTom

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live. ~ Peter Sellers (date of birth)
 * 0 Kalki 20:49, 7 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 16:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC) I would rank this higher, with a 3, or even a 4, but it is not sourced, and I have not yet found much to go on definitely tying it or anything like it to Sellers.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 15:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 22:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

''I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold me is love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.'' ~ Aimee Mann ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

It was imperative to strike before we were struck by this overwhelming force in a hand-to-hand fight, which we could not probably have withstood or survived. At that crisis, I ordered the bayonet. The word was enough. ~ Joshua Chamberlain (born 8 September 1828)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:41, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

 * Who shuns offence and holds with neither side, Who dreads the deep and never dares to swim, Who fears to trip and never tries to run, May yet in walking stumble.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Life is glad life when led by laughing hours, With joys of love or spoils of battle gilt; When darkness steals the day and shuts the flowers,  Our arms are shattered and the wine is spilt, We rise as grateful guests from banquet gay, Resign the wreath, and toss the glass away.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Death is dark death when slurred with terrors vain: Whether blest isles or fields Elysian wait, Or all is silent o'er the circling main,  We know not ever; but we conquer Fate, Assail the mansions of the Gods, and claim The crown of valour, in a deathless name.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Tis well to live for glory, home, and land; And, when these fail us, it is well to die. The latest freedom never fails our hand,  From scornful Earth, on wings of scorn, to fly; When Life grows heavy. Death remains, the door To dreamless rest beside the Stygian shore.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * The portals open to our meteor way: A red dawn breaks the shadows of the hour. We leave the bitter cup of alien sway,  To hinds that crouch beneath the heels of power. Ours the triumphal path, the hero's right; And Death hangs o'er us like a starry night!
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Greece and the world are Rome's: her stars prevail; But our complexion shifts not with the gale. When ONE against a NATION plays his life, He bears from hosts the glory of the strife: Until the hero's godlike race be run I shall be loyal to the setting sun.
 * John Nichol (biographer)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 00:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

title: September 8


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October 8

October 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion. ~ Stephanie Zacharek
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune (born 8 October 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant alike. Let Muad'dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never doubt Eternity. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune Messiah
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The year of jubilee has come; Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, The corn, drink the wine and all the harvest-home. ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." ~ Frank Herbert in Dune ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. ~ Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse : Dune ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 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
Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. ~ Dennis Kucinich (born 8 October 1946)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC) ("Poor health care ..." is repeated.)
 * 4 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. ~ Dennis Kucinich
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 16:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3; I much like this assertion, but don't have a strong desire to see it used this year, and there are several others I much prefer above it.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Denji 21:32, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Give me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear! ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
 * 4 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 any truth is better than a falsehood ~ Thoreau N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

''O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole. Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs Hearts of patience to unravel this, — the worth of common deeds.'' ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman ~
 * 3 Kalki 00:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 02:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I've lost any belief I ever had in scientific policy. I don't think you can have scientific policy. I think science is something like weeds, it just grows of its own accord … and if you've got the right atmosphere, the right situation … then it grows and develops of its own accord. And I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them. ~ Mark Oliphant (born 8 October 1901)
 * 3 Kalki 20:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * 3 Kalki 20:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work. ~ Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse : Dune ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:47, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 7 October 2019 (UTC), as there is no clear relation to this date, but would give it a 3, leaning towards 4 on Jackson's date of birth: 29 August.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 7 October 2019 (UTC), as there is no clear relation to this date, but would give it a 3, leaning towards 4 on Jackson's date of birth: 29 August.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

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November 8

November 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? ~ Spider Robinson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy (elected U.S. President 8 November 1960)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ Bram Stoker (born 8 November 1847)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes. ~ Peter Weiss ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing Not to lie under the earth but to walk upon it without crutches ~ Peter Weiss ~ (born November 8, 1916)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ Julian of Norwich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. ~ Julian of Norwich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success! ~ Bram Stoker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Pierre Bosquet · Robert Bulwer-Lytton · Dorothy Day · Julian of Norwich · Bram Stoker · Peter Weiss · Edmond Halley

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear ~ Peter Weiss
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:17, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The things which must be must be for the best. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time’s infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to have been before I cease to do and be! ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or even 4.

It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness. ~ Pierre Bosquet
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is no longer unsourced. You may recast your vote for this one. Zarbon 06:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature. ~ Hans Ji Maharaj
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

In this world, who you are is more important than what you are saying. ~ P. L. Deshpande
 * 3 Zarbon 05:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

My whole life I have been waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. From these writers, for almost 50 years, I have received narrative, witness, companionship, sanctuary, shock, and steely strangeness; good advice, bad news, deep chords, hurtful discrepancy, and amazing grace. At an average of five books a week, not counting all those sighed at and nibbled on before they go to the Strand, I will read 13,000. Then I'm dead. Thirteen thousand in a lifetime, about as many as there are new ones published every month in this country. It's not enough, and yet rich to excess. The books we love, love us back. ~ John Leonard (recent death)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 02:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it. So we are urging revolutionary change. ~ Dorothy Day
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:32, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Like Babe Ruth predicting where his next home run would land in the stands, Halley stated flatly that the comet would return at the end of 1758, from a particular part of the sky, following a specific path. ~ Narration of Edmond Halley's predicted return of the comet which is now named after him, from the third episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) (the sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:55, 8 October 2016 (UTC) Like many scientists, Edmond Halley (born 8 November 1656) wasn't a particularly gifted writer, so we really can't honor him in a quote of the day by using his own words. He was undeniably brilliant however, and his contribution is a worthy subject for a quote of the day. I thought the creators of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey were really smart to compare him to a famous athlete like Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth's Called Shot didn't have a profound impact on the world, but Halley's application of Newtonian physics to predict the return of the comet which bears his name really did.

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User:Batman2005~enwikiquote

WORK IN PROGRESS

NCIS (2003–) is a CBS network television series about a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service of the United States Navy.

Characters

 * Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs - Mark Harmon
 * Special Agent Anthony "Tony" Dinozzo - Michael Weatherly
 * Special Agent Caitlin "Kate" Todd - Sasha Alexander (2003-2005)
 * Special Agent Ziva David - Cote de Pablo (2005-Present)
 * Probationary Agent Timothy McGee - Sean Murray
 * Forensic Pathologist Abigail "Abby" Sciuto - Pauley Perrette
 * Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard - David McCallum
 * NCIS Director Tom Morrow - Alan Dale (2003-2005)
 * NCIS Director Jennifer "Jenny" Shephard - Lauren Holly (2005-Present)

Yankee White [1.1]

 * TSA Agent Dennis: NCIS? That anything like CSI?
 * Agent Dinozzo: Only if you're dyslexic.

 * Agent Gibbs: You ever work a crime scene Agent Todd?
 * Agent Todd: Well, I am a Secret Service Agent.
 * Agent Gibbs: I thought not.

 * Agent Todd: I can't give him Air Force Ones floor plans, they're top secret!
 * Agent Gibbs: Come on, Agent Todd. I saw all this in a Harrison Ford movie.

 * Agent Gibbs: NCIS does not leak. These plans get out... you can shoot DiNozzo.
 * Agent Todd: No, I think I'm destined to shoot you.

 * Agent Gibbs: Rule number one: Never let suspects stay together.

 * Agent Gibbs: Rule number two: Always wear gloves at a crime scene.

 * Agent Gibbs: Rule Number Three: Don't believe what you're told. Always double check.
 * Agent Todd: Should I write these rules on my Palm Pilot, or crochet them on pillows?

 * Agent Gibbs: (to Agent Todd) You mind if I tag along? Please.
 * Abby Sciuto: Wow, Gibbs said please!

Hung Out To Dry [1.2]

 * Witness: We were hanging out, listening to Dashboard Confessional.
 * Agent Dinozzo: Emo.
 * Agent Gibbs: Emo?
 * Agent Dinozzo: Emotional music. Gotta get a radio, Gibbs.

 * Agent Gibbs: Y'know, some of these guys freeze on their first jump. Have to be kicked in the ass to get them out.
 * Agent Dinozzo: Not me.
 * Agent Gibbs: Nope. You fall in the category that I want to kick in the ass on the ground.

The Curse [1.5]

 * Agent Dinozzo: The golf clubs belonged to his RIO, Lt. Lynch.
 * Agent Todd: RIO?
 * Agent Dinozzo: Radar Intercept Officer. Also called a GIBs, one B - short for guy in back.
 * Agent Todd: (to Agent Gibbs) What do you need two B's for?
 * Agent Gibbs: Second ones for bastard.

Marine Down [1.9]

 * Agent Todd: If we screw this up, I have a suggestion.
 * Agent Dinozzo: What?
 * Agent Todd: We break into Gibbs's basement and burn his boat.
 * Agent Dinozzo: That's cold, Kate. I knew there was a reason I liked you.

 * Agent Dinozzo: Gibbs'll get in. He's got clearance that'll let him see the dead aliens buried in Area 51.
 * Agent Todd: Because he probably killed them.

One Shot, One Kill [1.13]

 * Agent Gibbs: Hey Dinozzo, kinda reminds me of your apartment, except for that minty fresh urine smell.
 * Agent Dinozzo: Hey for your information I have a maid now.
 * Agent Gibbs: You can afford a maid?
 * Agent Dinozzo: It's amazing what you can do when you don't have to pay three alimonies.

 * Agent Todd: You think he told him a fast one?
 * Agent Dinozzo: I doubt it.
 * Agent Todd: Why?
 * Agent Dinozzo: Can you imagine someone lying to Gibbs and getting away with it?

The Good Samaritan [1.14]

 * Agent Gibbs: Anything Abby?
 * Abby Sciuto: This is the left rear tire off Commander Julius's car. Notice anything unusual?
 * Agent Gibbs: It's inflated.
 * Abby Sciuto: Is that a guess, or do you actually know where I'm going this?
 * Agent Gibbs: What do you think?
 * Abby Sciuto: Well, I don't know, that's why I asked you.
 * Agent Gibbs: Why don't you just tell me?
 * Abby Sciuto: So you don't know.
 * Agent Gibbs: I want to make sure you know.
 * Abby Sciuto: Hmmmm.
 * Agent Gibbs: Hmmmm.
 * Abby Sciuto: We should play poker sometime.
 * Agent Gibbs: Yeah, we should.

Enigma [1.15]

 * FBI Agent Charles: You're under arrest.
 * Agent Gibbs: For what?
 * FBI Agent Charles: Pissing off the FBI.
 * Agent Gibbs: Get used to it.

 * Agent Dinozzo: Where the hell are you? Fornell's here with a warrant for your arrest.
 * Agent Gibbs: Well, good thing I'm not there then.

Bete Noire [1.16]

 * Dr. Ducky Mallard: (to Ari Haswari) I look forward to weighing your liver.

The Truth Is Out There [1.17]

 * Abby Sciuto: The car that hit Gordon was definitely a Taurus.
 * Agent Gibbs: You're positive?
 * Abby Sciuto: Absolutely... unless it was a Mercury Sable.

Dead Man Talking [1.19]

 * Agent Gibbs: (has his Sig Sauer pointed at the head of Amanda Reed) His name was Special Agent Chris Pacci. And he was a friend.

 * Agent Todd: Speaking of way beyond hinky.
 * Agent Dinozzo: Okay, Kate. I can take it.
 * Agent Todd: What was it like, tonguing a guy?
 * Agent Dinozzo: That I can't take.

title: User:Batman2005~enwikiquote


text:
December 8

December 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon (died 8 December 1980)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber (born 8 December 1894)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz ~ (born 8 December 1913)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ Jim Morrison (born 8 December 1943)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2008
 * The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ James Thurber
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ Horace
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the law, bringing peace. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of Bodhi Day.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Bodhi Day'''
 * DOB: Lucian Freud · Horace · Jim Morrison · Delmore Schwartz · James Thurber

The covetous man is ever in want. ~ Horace
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. ~ Horace
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Child labor! The child must carry His fathers on his back. ~ Delmore Schwartz (born December 8, 1913)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

For we are incomplete and know no future, And we are howling or dancing out our souls In beating syllables before the curtain: We are Shakespearean, we are strangers. ~ Delmore Schwartz
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

All we are saying is give peace a chance! ~ John Lennon (Died that die in 1980 after being shot by Mark David Chapman)

 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 03:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC) this was used 4 April 2008.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. ~ Horace
 * 4 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC) (Cf. Bertrand Russell: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.")

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. ~ Mark Pesce
 * 3 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3.
 * 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Horace
 * 3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

The great thing about multiculturalism is it doesn't involve knowing anything about other cultures - the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures. It's fundamentally a fraud, and I think was subliminally accepted on that basis. Most adherents to the idea that all cultures are equal don't want to live in anything but an advanced Western society. ~ Mark Steyn
 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

title: December 8


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text:
January 9

January 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ Spider Robinson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ Karel Čapek (born 9 January 1890)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ Karel Čapek (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki
 * 2008
 * One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ~ Joan Baez
 * 2 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation. ~ Richard Nixon
 * 4 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 7 January 2012 (UTC) 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC) I can provisionally agree with this to some extent in most the most casually specific or practical contexts, but can perceive others in which it is disputable or definitely untrue — and I would assert that ultimately it's repudiation is true : any person or groups which believe a permanently just and lasting peace can be attained by anything OTHER than peaceful and respectful means, honorable by ALL parties involved, is extremely deluded. I wish to "make it perfectly clear" that I am certainly NOT a pacifist in the conventional sense — when anyone I am capable of defending is unjustly attacked I am often quite naturally, automatically and extremely inclined to do what I can to damage, devastate, demolish, and eradicate the destructive capacities of the attackers any way I can, and usually with very little if any qualm or reluctance; but I am also certainly NOT inclined to attack others not clearly engaged in intolerably unjust hostilities, NOR to wreak needless and usually quite detrimental vengeance on anyone defeated — I am inclined to forgive but not forget the stupidity of others, and pardon them, to the extent practically possible within the limitations of prudence. I know my stances on these matters can seem paradoxical to the weak minded and shallow perceptions of those who embrace MANY conventional and popular forms of timidity when attacked by the strong, or who lust for vengeance or the depraved will to simply punish others they consider enemies or proper victims when they are at the advantage, and thus seize upon such rationalizations as Nixon here provides as an excuse to act arrogantly, callously or even viciously against the proper rights of others — but I consider such behavior a failure to exercise one's truly rational and human capacities, and so remain in the merely brutal levels of perceptions and responses. Such attitudes are what the wisest ever fight — every way that they can, and it sometimes requires harshness that can easily be mistaken for brutality by those of shallow perception — and so it goes.... ~ ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 7 January 2012 (UTC) + tweaks
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Just as we respect the right of each nation to determine its own future, we also recognize the responsibility of each nation to secure its own future. ~ Richard Nixon
 * 3 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

All oppression creates a state of war. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

It is not in vain that man nullifies being. Thanks to him, being is disclosed and he desires this disclosure. There is an original type of attachment to being which is not the relationship “wanting to be” but rather “wanting to disclose being.” Now, here there is not failure, but rather success. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. There is a very old saying which goes: “Do what you must, come what may.” That amounts to saying in a different way that the result is not external to the good will which fulfills itself in aiming at it. If it came to be that each man did what he must, existence would be saved in each one without there being any need of dreaming of a paradise where all would be reconciled in death. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 2.75. – Illegitimate Barrister 23:19, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

title: January 9


text:
February 9

February 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * selected by Moby

 * 2005
 * My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, An everlasting vision of the everchanging view, A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold. ~ Carole King (born 9 February 1942)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses? ~ Mrs Patrick Campbell (born 9 February 1865)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. ~ J. M. Coetzee
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * You've got to get up every morning with a smile in your face And show the world all the love in your heart The people gonna treat you better, You're gonna find, yes you will, That you're beautiful as you feel. ~ Carole King ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * proposed by Kalki <!-- * 4 Kalki 19:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:10, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 It would have been nice if the "truth" was further clarified here. It sounds nice, but there's no real hidden message or thought provocation here at all. Zarbon 01:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is very clearly indicated that the truth he speaks of is such a truth as you seem willing and eager to remain oblivious to, as a means of justifying or excusing your own brutal impulses and tarades, ie: "I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at." I agree with such a vision of the truth of matters, even though there are many fools who are stupidly willing to do all they can to try to prove it false. To say that "there's no real hidden message or thought provocation here at all" is to merely demonstrate the vacuity of your own comprehensions. ~ Kalki 03:58, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This is simply not powerful enough. You need to understand what I mean by powerful. I don't believe "evil" to be a human condition. The very problem I have is that you even consider it a condition when it is truly nonexistent. My belief is as follows: "The strong survive and the weak perish". And any message that can be attributed to this moral dynamic is what I love. For you to even begin to comprehend what I'm saying, I think what you need to do is understand the message behind this quotation first. Any message has to be extremely moral in order for me to love it. By morality, I am not referring to blindly loving something just for the sake of it standing for love and/or against "evil". For me, there's no such thing as "good" and "evil". Those are dynamic imageries, yes, and mankind has grown accustomed to them and uses them frequently to summarize specific peoples. But I do believe that there is no ultimate evil and ultimate good...in explanation...something that is good for you may be evil for me and vice versa. I don't judge anything as good or evil and I don't label anything. Well, for example, as reference, back in 1950...people were not only being accused of Communism in America (as if it were a bad thing), they were being forced to decline their belief based on the system being "corrupt". The technicality here is that this creates a dogma, which is in itself an "evil" if you believe in that word so strongly. Is it right to say that every regime is wrong and all history is wrong because of its "evil" and all you can learn is that history has failed and only now has history begun to be made by America? Absolutely not. I think what you characterize as "evil", I characterize as beauty, ay comrade? - Zarbon 05:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Again, cut it with the "comrade" nonsense. I do not consider you much of a "comrade" at all, and I am not entirely sure of exactly why you keep using the term.

You state, in a rather succinct nihilistic expression, a bit more coherently than some of your statements, but just as absurdly: "I don't believe "evil" to be a human condition. The very problem I have is that you even consider it a condition when it is truly nonexistent."

I personally don't believe in any totally "evil being" — nor even a totally evil state — but many forms of evil will and inclinations certainly exist within people's minds — along with many other forms of profound confusion and stupidity.

Evil is something I am often inclined to define as the deliberate will, born of various levels of ignorance and confusion, to needlessly harm, destroy, diminish or mar the existence or beauty of things.

There are other less constrained and other more constrained definitions I can accept, based on particular perspectives on Reality, and various levels of evil will and actions, ranging from mild to extreme, but the idea that something definable as evil will simply does not exist, and is not actually an all too common phenomena among many people is something I will make no pretense of believing or accepting. Many can debate as to what necessary or unnecessary levels of harm or destruction might be, according to their perspectives and circumstances — but to find ways of diminishing the levels of such destruction and increasing the levels of progress and growth based on what has come before, is usually an aim of the wise. To deny that either such progress or diminishment exists or can exist is usually a contention of the most profoundly foolish of idiots.

I am not usually inclined to be harsh toward people, but there are times I must sometimes harshly reject and denounce certain ideas and many forms of persistent foolishness, when I encounter them.

Evil will is not something I presume to be entirely innate, nor something entirely alien to human inclinations, and I am not someone who believes that the ignorance and confusion which produce evil will is something that can be entirely be eliminated from humanity, but I can agree with Dostoevsky's "ridiculous man" that to be immersed in it is not the normal — or at least ultimately not the permanent or primary condition of humankind. Neither is stupidity — though one can find abundant evidence of people's ability to immerse themselves in that nearly every day. ~ Kalki 08:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC) -->

 * 2010
 * I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. But that does not make me angry any more. They are all dear to me now even while they laugh at me — yes, even then they are for some reason particularly dear to me. I shouldn't have minded laughing with them — not at myself, of course, but because I love them — had I not felt so sad as I looked at them. I feel sad because they do not know the truth, whereas I know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only man to know the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they will not understand. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. ~ Ecclesiastes
 * proposed by Tab1of2

 * 2012
 * To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Fys
 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (died 9 February, 1881). (Notes from the Underground)
 * 4. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 03:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC) but now leaning toward a zero. I simply do not consider this very appropriate as a WIkiquote quote of the day.
 * 4 because Dostoyevsky says it the way humans feel it. Excellent, sometimes it is better to get the anger out. I love this quote. Zarbon 22:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The ideas Dostoyevsky presents are actually far more complex than this quote indicates. Your very high opinion of brutal impulses exhibits what to me seems a very low opinion of humankind, and leaves me with a very low opinion of you, and your capacity to learn much. Smashing things merely for the delight of it can be very pleasant to fools, but the only thing a truly wise person seeks to smash are the delusions which keep fools smashing each others lives and truly beautiful accomplishments in needless ways. ~ Kalki 19:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Your interpretation sounds almost exactly like something that Mohandas a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi would say. Or to a lesser extent, Jesus. Sometimes, turning the cheek is not the appropriate thing to do. Sometimes, action comes from being brutal. Sometimes, it's nice to admit that ferocity can be pleasing. Do you want to know what's most disturbing? The fact that you'd override someone else's suggestion along with mine...two ratings of 4...which you of course shouldn't just based on your personal beliefs. I believe it's all good and fine to preach love and pleasantries to the extent that you do, but I also think that you shouldn't neglect an entire medium just based on your own opinion. If FYS sees this as a good suggestion, and I agree with it, maybe you should think farther than your own understanding to try and find some meaning as to why it's so powerful; hence the power behind the message that revenge is sweet, a dish best served cold, and even furthermore, why this quote holds such beauty. - Zarbon 01:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You suggest I should "find some meaning as to why it's so powerful" — I actually do not disagree at all with Dostoyevsky's observation that "To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred" if one applies this to concern for personal well-being, as opposed to society's well-being, and also recognize that "Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things" is an impressive statement, especially to such fools who have extended their motivations but little beyond the infantile. But I also realize he is making far more complex and involved points than anything this brief comment properly indicates. And I would point out that this statement does not in any way mention "turning the other cheek" it mentions simply smashing things for the delight of smashing them.

In regard to your dismissive allusions, I will state that I am quite capable and strong enough to often "turn the other cheek" — but I am by no means an advocate of always doing so, and I believe you will find that I am also quite capable and willing to smash away at various forms of profound stupidity in very powerful ways when I choose to do so. And not merely because it gives me satisfaction, though I won't deny that it sometimes does — but because I truly believe that in some circumstances which can exist, that is the best way to fight some particular form of stupidity. I usually aim to be as gentle as possible and only as harsh as necessary with most people, especially those who are fair and honest, but it is a practice I can usually extend even to such profound idiots as seem to prefer to be as harsh as possible and only as gentle as necessary.

Extending the above passage beyond the briefly quoted portion one sees that Dostoyevsky is making an argument not merely for indulging of personal impulses, one might find circumstantially pleasant, but having a respect for deeper and more profound impulses, including a capacity and will to suffer. I do not agree with all Dostoyevsky or his characters say — but I know his thoughts, his reason, and his emotions reach to far more profound and truly insightful levels than I have ever seen much evidence of yours doing:

 * Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact. There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove that; only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at all. As far as my personal opinion is concerned, to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. I hold no brief for suffering nor for well-being either. I am standing for … my caprice, and for its being guaranteed to me when necessary. Suffering would be out of place in vaudevilles, for instance; I know that. In the "Palace of Crystal" it is unthinkable; suffering means doubt, negation, and what would be the good of a "palace of crystal" if there could be any doubt about it? And yet I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. Though I did lay it down at the beginning that consciousness is the greatest misfortune for man, yet I know man prizes it and would not give it up for any satisfaction. Consciousness, for instance, is infinitely superior to twice two makes four. Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle up your five senses and plunge into contemplation.

As to using my own discretion in the final selection of another quote rather than this one, when it had two 4s, I would point out that you rather constanly seek to give undue weight to your preferences by giving low rankings to what are mostly highly ranked quotes of others, and now have the gall to whine and complain that I had the boldness to do so in this particular regard and to significantly diminish the ranked standing of two 4's with a 1. I have always recognized and asserted that you have the right to honestly express your opinions — even though you seem to gravitate to nonsensical nihilistic and absurdly authoritarian stances which I abhor, and I have always also maintained that I have the right to express mine, and to indicate, honestly, that I can have very little respect for many of those which you seem to embrace ardently.

I might possibly be more inclined to rank this quote even as high as a 2 if it were extended to slightly more context to this level of inclusion:

 * As far as my personal opinion is concerned, to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. I hold no brief for suffering nor for well-being either. I am standing for … my caprice, and for its being guaranteed to me when necessary.

Fys has not weighed in on the matter since first making the suggestion, but I stated some of my objections to the quote as-it-stands very clearly, and I remain very inclined to going further than my presently ranking it (as it stands) merely at 1, and ranking it 0, as you often do to many quotes you don't want to see used, for nearly any reason, or no stated reason at all. To summarize my reasons: as I stated previously, the portion selected actually gives a very poor indication of Dostoyevsky's overall thoughts. ~ Kalki 03:58, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That sentence is still the most powerful from that entire paragraph. I believe the message in there is that sometimes it's best to rid yourself of suffering through "smashing" or, as you put it, things you "abhor". I'm not surprised you abhor what I love, I wouldn't expect you to have the same feeling for what I find powerful and enigmatic. But that doesn't mean that others won't. Also, what astonishes me is that you can actually compare idiocy with supremacy, childish behavior with one's love for authoritarianism, and/or infantile behavior with the entire concept behind releasing one's anger. There's absolutely none of those emotions/feelings emitted by these quotations. They aren't infantile. In fact, they are genuine in that they are the derivations of Darwinism in their masked camouflage, which to me, is absolutely beautiful. Best put, something beautiful to me, may be disgusting to you and vice versa. When it comes to this specific quotation though, I believe it's most compelling when kept in its short format my dear comrade, hence it would lose its fervor if it were elongated. - Zarbon 05:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 * You state "That sentence is still the most powerful from that entire paragraph" — I have conceded that it is striking — but taken alone, it is neither coherent nor representational of the points Dostoyevsky is actually making, and certainly not any expression of profound wisdom.

 * I will not refrain from asserting that the arguments and statements you present now and in the past are such as I have found to have little coherence or lucidity, and sometimes have perceived to be disingenuous and outright deceptions and lies, as seems to be in accord as with some of the nihilistic notions you seem to embrace.

 * You state that it astonishes you that I compare "idiocy with supremacy, childish behavior with one's love for authoritarianism, and/or infantile behavior with the entire concept behind releasing one's anger" — I will state flatly that your absurd notions of "supremacy" seem to me to be consummately idiotic, authoritarianism consummately childish, and the need to release one's anger in entirely destructive ways as entirely infantile.

 * I must also confess that I can have very little idea of what convoluted notions of things you might be embracing when you state such things as "they are genuine in that they are the derivations of Darwinism in their masked camouflage, which to me, is absolutely beautiful." And I do wish you'd stop calling me "dear comrade." I'd much rather be regularly be called a goddamned fool, by people of far more social appeal than you seem to possess (because I know myself to in very many ways be one, but I still am not so much a fool as you seem to be, with the presumptive and incoherent declarations you seem inclined to make). You seem to have often confused me with someone who is advocating the notion that all is "sweetness and light" — or that it should be. I like dwelling on much that is either sweet or light in many ways — but I have no delusions that such are the only qualities to be found in people or the world, or that they ever will be. ~ Kalki 08:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I really wish you'd stop the name-calling. The word "idiotic" really doesn't appeal to me and I really don't think it would appeal to anyone in their right mind. You can tell a lot about a person based on how he treats others. Also, I don't appreciate you calling me a "fool" either. Or comparing myself to you. Or calling my declarations "incoherent". Or anything else of that nature. All people are unique because of their differences. If everyone was to agree about everything; if I agreed with you about all your assumptions, then we'd be a programmed mechanism, no more, no less. All I said was I don't enjoy how you yourself like to pursue on a constant basis the "dwelling on much that is either sweet or light in many ways". I would never limit myself to that. I never said you should agree with me, I just mean that you should ALLOW all forms of thought to pass, not just the ones you feel inclined to believe. It's moreso about acceptance than anything. And I don't see anything wrong with the word "comrade". It's certainly nicer than "fool", "idiot", and "incoherent" as you seem to freely abuse language of that caliber without any remorse. I have not once insulted you. I have disagreed with your ideology, or set forth a notion that contradicts your beliefs, but I have truly never insulted you. - Zarbon 05:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is often far less of an insult to people's intelligence and potentials for worth to state plainly and bluntly what one actually believes about matters in dispute than to tiptoe about with insincere or shallow shows of niceties towards such behavior or ideas as one considers to be among the most truly vicious and deceitful as can be harbored by the human mind, whether openly or disguisedly. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

 * 0 Ningauble 16:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC) — Not suitable for Quote of the Day because the intent is lost without a great deal of context. It can be rewarding to contemplate this sort of observation by existentialists such as Dostoyevsky when one is following the development of ideas in which it is used, or knows where it is leading, but presenting it out-of-the-blue as a Quote of the Day is inappropriate. The problem is explicitly illustrated by this quote being championed by one who evidently disagrees strongly with Dostoyevsky's conclusions, his resolution to the existential crisis. (I would like to assume this is due to being unfamiliar with the ideas, rather than an intention to misrepresent them.) ~ Ningauble 16:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Although he devoted hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings, and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. ~ J. M. Coetzee
 * 3 N6n 03:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:17, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

 * This suggestion originally proposed for 7 April as quote of William Ellery Channing, but that was subsequently revealed as a misattribution, and the suggestion moved here.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is overeager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ~ William Ellery Channing Philip Shuttleworth
 * 3 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:59, 6 April 2019 (UTC) 3 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. 3 — but only after being transferred to 9 February page, for the birthdate of the correct author Philip Shuttleworth.
 * 3.5 Ningauble 16:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

title: February 9


text:
March 9

March 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * People often say to me, "I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it," and I am apt to reply, "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it." ~ Alan Watts
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin (born 9 March 1934)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ Dana Reeve (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ Mickey Spillane (born 9 March 1918)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ Mickey Spillane
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ Shashi Tharoor
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate. ~ Vita Sackville-West
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world. ~ William Cobbett
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2021

 * proposed by Pithy Francoln, as the anniversary of this introduction to the premiere episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980).

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks in the close of the State of the Union address.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You can figure things out as quickly as I can, but you haven't got the ways and means of doing the dirty work. That's where I come in. You'll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I'll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. That is, if you can shove me aside. I don't think you can. ~ Mickey Spillane
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. ~ Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC) I might rank this a 4 if a definite published source can be found for it.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I looked and looked but I didn't see God. ~ Yuri Gagarin
 * 3 because sometimes God need not be found by eyes, even when floating in outer space, through the eyes of an astronaut. Zarbon 15:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC) no strong desire to use this one, and the accuracy of it has been disputed.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ~ William Cobbett (born 9 March 1763), Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)
 * 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ~ Luis Barragán
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled. ~ William Warner (birth unknown/date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with. ~ David Smith
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. ~ Bobby Fischer
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination. ~ Shashi Tharoor
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Mum, I know you're always there To help and guide me with all your care, You nursed and fed me and made me strong To face the world and all its wrong. ~ Bobby Sands
 * 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. ~ William Cobbett
 * 3 bystander (talk) 22:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Khannaford 23:52, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/science-as-a-candle-in-the-darkness/ What Cosmos has, at its heart, is hope. It's about the future we could have if we get our act together.] - Ann Druyan, co-writer with Carl Sagan for the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) and a co-writer, executive producer and director for the sequel series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (which premiered on March 9, 2014).
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2016 (UTC) If any of these three semi-promotional videos for Cosmos: ASO which I've listed on this date are used, I think it should be the President's.
 * The quote by Obama has now been used, on 2021·03·09. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/the-legacy-of-cosmos/ We've reached a point in time where we've gotten a little lax with our enthusiasm about science and our thirst for knowledge. . . . I hope that this Cosmos can instigate a reawakening of the same enthusiasm for science that the original Cosmos brought.] - Seth MacFarlane, executive producer for the science documentary television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (which premiered on March 9, 2014).
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2016 (UTC) If any of these three semi-promotional videos for Cosmos: ASO which I've listed on this date are used, I think it should be the President's.
 * The quote by Obama has now been used, on 2021·03·09. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:35, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

 * Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, nous n’en sortirons que par la force.We are here by the will of the nation, and we shall not leave except we are driven out by force.
 * Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC) could also run on June 23

title: March 9


text:
April 9

April 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~ John Vance Cheney
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ Richard Feynman
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that! ~ Tom Lehrer (born 9 April 1928)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one’s eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. ~ Charles Baudelaire (born 9 April 1821)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. ~ Charles Baudelaire
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, don’t they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness? ~ Charles Baudelaire
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed, DO WHAT THOU WILT. Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. ~ François Rabelais ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. ~ François Rabelais
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * He would never take upon him the charge nor government of monks. For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself: l If you think I have done you, or may hereafter do you any acceptable service, give me leave to found an abbey after my own mind and fancy. ~ François Rabelais
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by SuperJew

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016
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 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

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

 * 2021

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 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki); quote of an Easter Hymn, for Easter Sunday 2023.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity. ~ Charles Baudelaire
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 13:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~ Charles Baudelaire
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 13:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty — a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion. ~ Charles Baudelaire
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC) /// NOT 3 Kalki 04:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Arjen Dijksman 13:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

A field marshal is born, not made! ~ Erich Ludendorff (born April 9)
 * 3 and lean toward 4 because this is true. You cannot create the great character in a person, he must have it within. I love this militant mindset. Zarbon 06:42, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: World War I: A Student Encyclopedia - Page 1137 by Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts - History - 2005
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 13:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor. ~ François Rabelais (date of death/date of birth unknown)
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours. ~ François Rabelais
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. ~ William Law
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC) The wise have long observed that those who think themselves too humble and kind towards others and do "too much" for them are among the least kindly and humble of all, and often seek reasons or excuses to be even less so, while the wisest are usually quite humbly disposed to be as kind as honorably possible (without being even more unkind to others), even to those least deserving of kindness.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. ~ Jim Fowler
 * 2 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Almost all of the social tragedies occurring around the world today are caused by ignoring the basic biological laws of nature … The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.Love you all~ Jim Fowler
 * 2 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Against this background, the jealousy of the protagonist becomes more credible, the blows to his pride more understandable, the final collapse of his personal, individual world more inevitable. But beyond the personal tragedy, the terrible agony of Othello, the irretrievability of his world, the complete destruction of all his trusted and sacred values — all these suggest the shattering of a universe. ~ Paul Robeson Beyond the personal tragedy, the terrible agony of Othello, the irretrievability of his world, the complete destruction of all his trusted and sacred values — all these suggest the shattering of a universe.
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC) This is clearly lacking context as quoted here, but would give it a 3 if either cut to:
 * OR, perhaps extended to:
 * It was deeply fascinating to watch how strikingly contemporary American audiences from coast to coast found Shakespeare's Othello — painfully immediate in its unfolding of evil, innocence, passion, dignity and nobility, and contemporary in its overtones of a clash of cultures, of the partial acceptance of and consequent effect upon one of a minority group. Against this background, the jealousy of the protagonist becomes more credible, the blows to his pride more understandable, the final collapse of his personal, individual world more inevitable. But beyond the personal tragedy, the terrible agony of Othello, the irretrievability of his world, the complete destruction of all his trusted and sacred values — all these suggest the shattering of a universe.

One does not need a very long racial memory to loose on oneself in such a part...As I act, civilization falls away from me. My plight becomes real, the horrors terrible facts. I feel the terror of the slave mart, the degradation of man bought and sold into slavery. Well, I am the son of an emancipated slave and the stories of old father are vivid on the tablets of my memory. ~ Paul Robeson
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar. Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far, Before you agonise them in farewell? ~ Laurence Hope
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I would have rather felt you round my throat Crushing out life, than waving me farewell! ~ Laurence Hope
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive. ~ Marc Jacobs
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

A painting grows like a plant. Use all colours, all shapes. Everything that attracts and excites me is a part of me. Painting is about proportions, relationships which breathe life. Painting is a harmony which runs parallel to nature. ~ Stefan Szczesny
 * 2 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion. ~ Stefan Szczesny
 * 2 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting. ~ Stefan Szczesny
 * 2 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power. ~ J. William Fulbright
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. ~ J. William Fulbright
 * 3 Zarbon 15:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC) I was going to use this, but only the last PART of the quote can currently be found in internet searches — and more corroboration is needed ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. Every Sunday you'll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the pigeons in the park.
 * ~ Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

 * 0 Zarbon 16:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge is power.)
 * ~Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597) "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]

 * 0 and please sign your name and vote accordingly if you wish to participate. Zarbon 16:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Nil terribile nisi ipse timor. (Nothing is terrible except fear itself.)
 * ~Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Fortitudo (1623)

 * 1 seems like the usual phrase "fear nothing but fear itself. Zarbon 16:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Israel's Exodus from Egypt will forever stay the spring of the whole world. (original hebrew: "יציאת ישראל ממצרים תישאר לעד האביב של כל העולם כולו.")
 * ~Rabbi Kook. original quote appears here and Rabbi Kook's page is here

 * 0 Zarbon 16:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. ~ Valerie Solanas
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 15:29, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles. ~ J. William Fulbright

 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

title: April 9