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April 7

April 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of hell. ~ Saint Augustine
 * selected by Poor Yorick

 * 2005
 * Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for. At the center humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. ~ Saul Bellow (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ~ William Wordsworth (born 7 April 1770)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. ~ William Wordsworth
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. ~ Charlton Heston (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ~ William Ellery Channing (born 7 April 1780)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom. ~ William Ellery Channing
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. ~ Henry Kuttner
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~ William Ellery Channing
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to World Health Day 2017, with its theme of "Depression: Let's Talk"

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

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

 * 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
This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. ~ William Wordsworth (born April 7, 1770)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC) But only if prefixed to begin with :
 * Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty:

 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there not An art, a music, and a stream of words That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? ~ William Wordsworth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. ~ William Wordsworth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 16:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. ~ William Wordsworth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. ~ William Wordsworth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour. ~ William Wordsworth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4 but would extend it :
 * I see what was, and is, and will abide; Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish; — be it so! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 16:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC) for the extended quote.

Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own. ~ Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915) and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 16:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar... ~ William Wordsworth ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean towards a 4
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. ~ William Wordsworth ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean towards a 4, but would now (2011 onwards) prefer to extend it to the full poem "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic":
 * Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is pass'd away.

 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 16:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control. ~ William Ellery Channing
 * 3 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. ~ William Ellery Channing
 * 2 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ~ John Sheffield
 * 3 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw. ~ John Sheffield
 * 2 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC) needs context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. ~ John Sheffield
 * 2 Zarbon 01:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I believe in things I never used to. I think someone is trying to find me — has found me. And is calling. Who it is I don't know. What they want I don't know. But a little while ago I found out one more thing — this sword. … Sometimes, when my mind is — abstract, something from outside floats into it. Like the need for a sword. And not any sword — just one. I don't know what the sword looks like, but I'd know if I held it in my hand. … And if I drew it a few inches from the sheath, I could put out that fire up there as if I'd blown on it like a candleflame. And if I drew the sword all the way out — the world would come to an end! ~ Henry Kuttner
 * 3 Kalki 02:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:10, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

A doubled weapon wielded by the Face of Ea, wrought the cleaving apart of two universes. Imponderable forces shifted when that cleavage took place. You and I know nothing about it, for it happened far beyond the perceptions of any sentient creature. But it happened. Oh yes, it happened. ~ Henry Kuttner
 * 3 Kalki 02:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:10, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm going forward. I know — because I went. It was a wonderful world they had. I want to see more of it. I want to wake up in a time when the race of man is spreading through the galaxy, leaping across the gulfs between the stars, opening the gates to all the worlds. I want to and I will. ~ Henry Kuttner
 * 3 Kalki 02:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:10, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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May 7

May 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. ~ David Hume (born 7 May 1711 (26 April O.S.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. ~ Rabindranath Tagore (born 7 May 1861)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. ~ David Hume
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons. ~ David Hume
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. ~ Edwin H. Land (born 7 May 1909 )
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * used 20 July 2004, selected by Kalki

 * If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * used 6 May 2005, selected by Kalki

 * used 5 May 2018, proposed by DanielTom
 * used 5 May 2018, proposed by DanielTom

Suggestions
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. ~ Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7)
 * 3 because people who believe that some people are immortal in their physical essence are proven wrong when the end of their life comes just as any other person. And truly, ashes to ashes, dust to dust becomes a descriptive outlook. Zarbon 04:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 (though with little regard for Zarbon's assessment of its significance)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 20:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * 3 Kalki 17:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 20:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 20:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 preferred for Edwin Land's centennial 2009 Arjen Dijksman 20:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) I like this, but I prefer some other quotes by Land, and others — with a lean toward 3 or perhaps eventually a 4.

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 lean towards 4 (2015) Edty10 01:02, 21st April 2015 (UTC)

All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Children have more need of models than of critics. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) but usually of thinking too much of little and too little of much.

Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 2 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * 3 Zarbon 00:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 Kalki 12:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, in this form OR trimmed to just the motto itself, which is all which is normally quoted. I prefer to retain the qualifying expressions prior to it.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. ~ Edwin H. Land
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 4 May 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

Adolescents are simply those people who haven't as yet chosen between childhood and adulthood. For as long as anyone tries to hold on to the advantages of childhood — the freedom from responsibility, principally — while seeking to lay claim to the best parts of adulthood, such as independence, he is an adolescent. [...] Eventually most people choose to be adults, or are forced into it. A very few retreat into childhood and never leave it again. A large number remain adolescents for life. ~ Gene Wolfe (born 1931-05-07)
 * 3 with a lean to 4 bystander (talk) 21:10, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:48, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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June 7

June 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ Euripides
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks (born 7 June 1917)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. ~ Paul Gauguin (born 7 June 1848)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun (author) and Kalki (quote)

 * 2007
 * Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. ~ Paul Gauguin (born 7 June 1848)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter. ~ June Jordan
 * proposed by Kalki (originally suggested with an attribution of Gwendolyn Brooks, but soon after it was selected this was determined to be a long standing misattribution, and the correct attribution was made.)

 * 2010
 * Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. ~ Paul Gauguin
 * 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 J.A.R.N.Y.

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks concerning commemoration of the Normandy landings of 1944.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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July 7

July 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The more you love, the more you can love — and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. ~ Robert A. Heinlein (born 7 July 1907)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. ~ Robert A. Heinlein (born 7 July 1907)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London; anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
 * used 17 June 2007, proposed by InvisibleSun

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * 3 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 00:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and powerful, it was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jews, young and old; an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any consideration for age, for castes, for religions, whatever. That isn't an ideology, that isn't even a perverted faith. It is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London; anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
 * originally suggested by Kalki for July 13, 2005
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 10:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC) I might possibly rank this higher someday, but Ken Livingstone was quoted just last month, and Heinlein is one of those few authors who I am strongly inclined to favor nearly any year on their birthday. ~ Kalki 00:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC) — but I might have a strong inclination to use this on the 10th anniversary, in 2015. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice. ~ Michael Howard
 * 2 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige
 * 2 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Military policy is like cancer: Nobody knows where it comes from but it can't be ignored. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Swordplay is an odd thing; you don't really use your mind, it is much too fast for that. Your wrist thinks and tells your feet and body what to do, bypassing your brain... ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Freedom was never more than a happy accident because the common jerk, all human races, hates and fears all freedom, not only for his neighbors but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; though I do not share the level of pessimism of Heinlein's character here, I can appreciate the general tendencies are much as stated.

Nobody knows how many universes there are. Theory places no limit: any and all possibilities in unlimited number of combinations of "natural" laws, each sheaf appropriate to its own universe. But this is just theory and Occam's Razor is much too dull. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket! ~ Robert A. Heinlein in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: July 7


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User:Wazzawazzawaz

NOTE: the edit history of this user indicates the account was created entirely for vandalism and trolling, that this user was inadvertently revealed to probably also be using IP 216.164.203.90 at the time, and despite an apparently feigned naïveté also exhibited immediate familiarity of blocking procedures and an indication of immediate awareness of "Riley on rails Tape Recorder" as a "WoW" incarnation. I am thus blocking this account permanently as merely another incarnation of a known troll-vandal. ~ Kalki 05:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC) See also IP 216.164.203.90 at Wikipedia for some characteristic edits of this vandal. ~ Kalki 12:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome. Im new to this whole "Wika" shit. Any help will be damn well appricated. Wazzawazzawaz 02:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Joke
I thought you were gonna tell me the joke in the message. Thanks, by the way. Hawkeye 22:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

title: User:Wazzawazzawaz


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User talk:Wazzawazzawaz

NOTE: the edit history of this user indicates the account was created entirely for vandalism and trolling, that this user was inadvertently revealed to probably also be using IP 216.164.203.90 at the time, and despite an apparently feigned naïveté also exhibited immediate familiarity of blocking procedures and an indication of immediate awareness of "Riley on rails Tape Recorder" as a "WoW" incarnation. I am thus blocking this account permanently as merely another incarnation of a known troll-vandal. ~ Kalki 05:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC) See also IP 216.164.203.90 at Wikipedia for some characteristic edits of this vandal. ~ Kalki 12:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Some of the initial dialog with this user, that occured prior to blocking:

One tells a joke, rather than asks it, and I cannot entirely know if I will mind it or not beforehand, but the wiki doesn't exist for joke telling, or irrelevant discussions on non-wiki matters, but rather for the collecting of quotes. But of course I am curious as to what idea of a "joke" is prompting your inquiries. ~ Kalki 02:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Whatever your intentions might be, I will have to ask you to stop asking irrelevant questions on random user's talk pages. That is not what the wiki exists for, and is not appropriate activity. ~ Kalki 02:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I am not angry, but neither am I pleased. You have my permission to tell me whatever you might think is notable... but I must repeat, that engaging in irrelevant dialog with users here is not what the wiki exists for. It is not a talk forum, but rather a project focused on the collecting and organizing of quotations. Some degree of personal dialog between users is acceptable, but it is not actually one of the purposes of the project. ~ Kalki 02:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I cannot honestly say that your "joke" has brightened my day, and that anyone would be inclined to think such jokes would is rather depressing. I would suggest that you browse the project and read "What Wikiquote is not" and other policy pages to get an idea of what the project actually is for, and ask you to please refrain from initiating discussions that are not relevant to the project. Too much activity of that sort is a nuisance to others, and could end up getting you blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 02:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Quotes recently added
I concede that there might be such a line by Gandhi, but it is not evident in my google searches; providing a page number and publisher would be helpful in perhaps eventually confirming your assertions. The tone of your dialog and the fact that there also appears to be no "Jeffery Garhmand" as an author or subject of any books at all, does not enhance your credibility at this point. ~ Shadow 03:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * If I might jump in on this discussion, as I just pointed out below, an ISBN number or other verifiable publication information would be useful. A person's claim of physical proof is not verifiable — not even if it comes from Wikipedia's founder — and a central tenet of Wikimedia Foundation materials is verifiability. Providing publication information that can be independently verified is necessary. There are many independent sources that may be used for verification with this data. For instance, it is almost certain that the Library of Congress will have a record of any English-language book authored by Gandhi (as well as quite a few non-English ones, as my brief check of its 599 records for Gandhi revealed). So far, I found nothing called Gandhi: An Autobiography, but more details could help find such a book.

 * Wazzawazzawaz, if you wonder why it is so important to be able to verify information, let me point out that Wikimedia projects deal with literally thousands of vandals every day, from people who simply write expletives across articles, to sophisticated ones who enjoy creating bogus articles with realistic-looking but completely fake "sources". Since we try not to prevent anyone who demonstrates minimal good faith from participating in editing, we must have standards that allow this global community to continually verify its texts. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Response to your multiple postings

 * Hay, Mind if I tell you a joke? Wazzawazzawaz 02:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I see you don’t want to hear it. Anyway, what should I do when some wiseass geek kid removes my Gandhi quote just because he can’t find it on Google?  I have it in a hardback book about him right in front of me.  You know, what is this world coming to when people use computers for everything.  Wazzawazzawaz 03:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I take it, you don't respond to messages/questions ? Wazzawazzawaz 03:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Wazzawazzawaz, you are making and acting on many assumptions about Wikiquote and wikis in general that are likely to quickly earn you the reputation of being a nuisance editor. In addition to the points that Kalki made above, allow me to add a few in response to your questions that I've cited immediately previous: In your future postings and activity here, I hope that you (A) have more patience while waiting for responses, (B) avoid denigrating others just because you disagree with them, and (C) do not use Wikiquote talk pages and the village pump as a chat room. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You cannot assume that someone is going to respond immediately to your postings. Wikis are not telephone calls, instant message services, or chat rooms. Users may be absent for days, weeks, or even months, and one has no way to tell when they might return.
 * I did not respond quickly to your queries because I was (and am) busy on a very time-consuming project that is related to Wikiquote's purposes. I also rarely engage in "chit-chat", boring though that makes me.
 * Your use of the phrase "wiseass geek kid" when referring to an editor with whom you disagree is against the Wikimedia Foundation's policy of no personal attacks. It is a bad idea to assume anything about the nature of editors. Even attempting to deduce their personalities and other facets, simply based on their edits, can be challenging. (I have, in the past, been quite entertained by some of the gross misunderstandings people have had about me that were based on my user page and picture.)
 * I cannot address your question about the Gandhi quote because you didn't specify what the quote was, who removed it, and when this happened. The general question of how to address content disputes is to bring it up on the article's talk page. Any editor can add, edit, or delete a quote. If two or more disagree about the text or the desirability of the quote, they should discuss it — civilly — on the talk page.
 * If you have a book with the quote, the best thing to do is to cite the title, author, ISBN and/or publisher and date, and page number as a full source. (You can see how this is done on any page with a "Sourced" section. Robert A. Heinlein has a number of citations with various levels of specificity, the most complete being under The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.) This enables other editors to verify the quote, and gives you the moral high ground in arguing for specific wording. It does not, however, guarantee that someone won't disagree with you. The entire Wikiquote community is the "editing board", and like any board, we must discuss with each other what quotes we as a community wish to include or exclude. (Wikiquote does not attempt to include all quotes on any substantial subject, just a representative sample, so we must negotiate such matters with each other.)

Investigating user complaint
This user has complained that the evidence supporting his/her blocking has not been made clear. I am compiling information to investigate this. However, this user has also demonstrated a complete lack of patience and is actively attempting to revert earlier findings posted by sysops in advance of a response. I have therefore temporarily blocked further writes to this page until my investigation can be posted, which I should be able to do within the hour. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I have compiled the edit histories of 216.164.203.90 and Wazzawazzawaz, from their initial edits through 12 June 2006, sorted chronologically, to investigate Wazzawazzawaz's complaint of an unreasonable block and warning message on his user and user talk pages.

I later explained to Wazzawazzawaz why we need more specific information, and by this time had provided him with some advice to augment that given by Kalki earlier. There have been no further edits (as of 17 June 2006, 19:21 UTC) from either Wazzawazzawaz or 216.164.203.90, except for Wazzawazzawaz's attempts to remove the vandalism warning from his user & user talk pages, and postings to my and Kalki's talk pages, despite supposedly being blocked permanently. (I have reissued the block, but I don't understand how it was bypassed without being logged as unblocked.)

The most telling connection between Wazzawazzawaz and 216.164.203.90 is the cross-activity between them. Waz, who is so impatient that he expects immediate responses from other active editors, goes silent for 13 minutes while 216 adds him to the Wikiquotian list with a comment that implies personal knowledge of him. This is immediately responded to by a Waz post to 216, followed by a removal from the list that appears to confirm this knowledge. (Another 9-minute gap in Waz editing, during which 216 again makes an inflammatory edit, adds to the suspiciousness.) This, combined with posting chatty comments to all active users (verging on trolling, especially after being warned politely) and an proven awareness of WoW vandal variations while claiming to be a newbie, make it quite reasonable for sysops to deem this account to be used as an auxiliary for a known vandal. The business about inadequately sourced quotes, taken in isolation, could simply be a true newbie learning the ropes of sourcing and other Wikiquote practices, but the other activity leads editors to believe otherwise.

With this analysis, I am restoring Kalki's warning messages and unprotecting the user talk page. The user can post further arguments if he wishes, but the account will not be unblocked unless a compelling justification convinces a sysop monitoring this page. If either the user or user talk page are used for activity inappropriate to Wikiquote (like personal attacks or attempts to remove justified warnings), the pages will be protected from editing at the discretion of the sysop staff. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:209.148.131.219

Mind if I tell you a joke? Wazzawazzawaz 02:28, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

June 12, 2006
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did to Star Fox: Assault. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -- Robert 21:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Star Fox: Assault, you will be blocked from editing Wikiquote. -- Robert 00:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

 * You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalising Wikiquote. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. -- Robert 22:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

June 26, 2006
You have been blocked for one week for continued vandalism to Star Fox: Assault despite warnings. -- Robert 22:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

July 7, 2006
You have again been blocked for continued vandalism to Star Fox: Assault despite warnings. -- Robert 02:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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User:Riley on rails Tape Recorder

This page and user name was created by a tragically infantile vandal with apparently little better to do than be a nuisance to others. The username has been permanently blocked. ~ Kalki 11:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

title: User:Riley on rails Tape Recorder


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August 7

August 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor (born 7 August 1942)
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2006
 * We help the internet not suck. ~ Jimmy Wales (born 7 August 1966)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. ~ Alan Keyes
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2010
 * The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki for the 70th anniversary of the first public announcement of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

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

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current issues.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * used 15 January 2006

Suggestions
When someone just writes 'fuck, fuck, fuck', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck. ~ Jimmy Wales (born that day) "Who knows?", The Guardian, October 26, 2004
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 22:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC) "laugh and move on..."
 * 0 Zarbon 15:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) His Wikiquote page says he was born August 8.

When a feeling dissolves, it ceases to be your enemy and begins to be one of your allies. ~ Ed Seykota
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

"The Russians aren't dedicated world dominationists. You know, they just sort of want it on account of a sentimental way, you know, but not like 'By God, we got to have it!' It just doesn't make sense for them to really push too hard, you know, but just to push easy." Herman Kahn

 * 4 Abattoir666 (talk · contributions) 11:33, 5 August 2014 (EST) I'm sorry, but the incessant optimism is kinda killing me, besides, this ones kinda funny.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC) there is no clear relation to the date, and there are many others by Kahn I would prefer to use, even on such dates as have more relation to Kahn, or the statement.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Some of the following suggestions related to Jimmy Wales for a time were posted as suggestions for 8 August, due to disputes as to his birthdate — which seems to have been resolved with his birth occurring on the 7th, just prior to midnight, though it was listed on his birth certificate as the 8th.

We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) Love this quote. I would rate this a '3' but according to this article, Jimmy Wales was born August 8.
 * I will move the suggestions here for quotes of Wales to 8 August, but perhaps retaining them here for reference. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:07, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) [struck as this user was objecting to the error in the date, because this originally was placed on the "7th August" suggestion page]

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. … The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) [struck as this user was objecting to the error in the date, because this originally was placed on the "7th August" suggestion page]

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September 7

September 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ Edith Sitwell (born 7 September 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ Edith Sitwell (born 7 September 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~ Nikita Khrushchev
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2009
 * I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~ Grandma Moses
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki; not only is it Sitwell's birthday, but it is also the date on which the Blitz which she writes about in the poem began.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

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

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki in regard of her recent appointment as Prime Minister of the UK.

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
God may forgive you, but I never can. ~ Elizabeth I of England (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC) No context.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. ~ Taylor Caldwell
 * 3 Zarbon 06:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Within your magic web of hair, lies furled The fire and splendour of the ancient world; The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair; The songs that turned to gold the evening air When all the stars of heaven sang for joy. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * 3 Kalki 15:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. ~ Taylor Caldwell
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:21, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

title: September 7


text:
October 7

October 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... ~ Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ~ U Thant
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr (born 7 October 1885)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature. ~ Niels Bohr
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We depend on our words … Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character … We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly. ~ Niels Bohr
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. ~ Steven Erikson
 * proposed by Zarbon

the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it'' ~ Ronald David Laing ~
 * 2009
 * ''I am doing it
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. ~ Niels Bohr
 * proposed by Kalki

and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate'' ~ Ronald David Laing ~
 * 2011
 * ''One may think there is a gate to go through
 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; Putin's assertions of noble sentiments and charitable intentions, after statements denying Ukraine's genuine independent sovereignty, prior to initiating the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ~ Edgar Allan Poe (death date)
 * 3 Kalki 23:31, 6 October 2005 (UTC) When good quotes by someone have been found, I generally prefer to to use them on birth dates rather than death dates, though Poe's death date seems one good case for an exception. Though I have some desire to see this used, as it does refer to the act of quotation, there are many other passages of Poe I would prefer, including "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" - even though this is very similar to another line from the same poem that has already been used.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 This quote will only appeal to those who have read the poem though. It made me happy! N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 4 This quote will only appeal to those who have read the poem though. It made me happy! N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I'll be back. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (became governor that day)
 * 4 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 11:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:31, 6 October 2005 (UTC) I think this could be used in some context in the future, but don't feel an urgency to use it at this time... I'm sure it will be back...
 * 1 Zarbon 04:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 (I like it.) DanielTom (talk) 03:08, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (became governor that day)
 * 2 Kalki 11:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

This is a page of glory in our history, which has never been written and is never to be written.... ~ Heinrich Himmler (born October 7)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. ~ Heinrich Himmler (born October 7)
 * 4 because fear has always been a powerful weapon. The spreading of fear allows for the highest amount of respect to be given, a respect dominated strongly by the will to survive. A very similar quotation is said by Darth Maul in Star Wars and is one of my favorites. Both in fiction and history, this ideology is powerful and enigmatic. Zarbon 04:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior By Alberto Rivas -Psychology - 2007 - Page 162
 * 1 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself. ~ Steven Erikson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. ~ Steven Erikson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves. ~ Vladimir Putin
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. ~ Vladimir Putin
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

...we also need to build our home and make it strong and well protected. We see, after all, what is going on in the world. The Comrade Wolf knows who to eat, as the saying goes. It knows who to eat and is not about to listen to anyone. ~ Vladimir Putin
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 2 Zarbon 05:28, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) but this needs sourcing and I would prefer it to be extended for context, and I probably won't have time to seek this myself today ~ Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

You don't choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~ Desmond Tutu
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven. ~ Desmond Tutu
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ~ Desmond Tutu
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. ~ Desmond Tutu
 * 2 Zarbon 05:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Wallacegromit1 (talk) 18:32, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. ~ Steven Erikson
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:43, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based. ~ Niels Bohr
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them. ~ Niels Bohr
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible. From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. ~ Ronald David Laing
 * 3 Kalki 20:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market. ~ Ha-Joon Chang
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 03:02, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 05:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 05:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3.25. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 09:36, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

title: October 7


text:
Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson (4 February 1960 – 25 January 1996) was an American composer and playwright, famous as a writer of musicals, including tick, tick... BOOM! (1990) and Rent (1996).

 * See also Rent (play) and Rent (film).

Superbia

 * One of these days I'll find a way / I'll rise above the throng / They'll be amazed at what they see / One of these days someone will say / I knew it all along / One of these days, that's what will be
 * There is no god, or love, just time / Saying "Do what you will. Nothing's real today" / We are fleeting numbers, and images / Like the liquid crystal digital readout / Floating on the sea of grey.
 * Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go / And you know, or at least you knew / Everything's strange, you've changed and I don't know what to do / To get through

tick, tick... BOOM! (1990)

 * In one week I'll be thirty. Three-zero. Older than my Dad was when I was born. Older than Napoleon was when he ... did something that was probably extremely impressive at the time – I'm not a historian. I'm a composer. Sorry, a "promising young composer." I should have kids of my own by now, a career, but instead I've been "promising" for so long I'm afraid I'm starting to break the fucking promise.
 * 6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.

 * Break of day, the dawn is here / Johnny's up and pacing / Compromise or persevere? / His mind is racing / Johnny has no guide / Johnny wants to hide / Can he make his mark, if he gives up his spark? / Johnny can't decide

 * I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at the piano, and write a song that people will listen to and remember. And do the same thing every morning for the rest of my life.

 * This is a car that allows you to adjust the temperature of your ass.
 * Chubstitute (a name for a fat substitute)

 * I'm not mad that you got mad when I got mad when you said I should go drop dead.

Rent (1996)

 * We're not gonna pay rent
 * 'Cause everything is rent
 * There's only us, there's only this / Forget regret, or life is yours to miss / No other road, no other way / No day but today!

 * Give into love or live in fear

 * Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
 * Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe / Oh, sunny Santa Fe would be nice / We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe / And leave this to the roaches and mice
 * I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love, but now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are my love!

 * Life's too short, babe, time's a-flying. I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine.
 * The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!
 * I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had... Someone to live for... Unafraid to say 'I love you!'

 * You'll never share real love until you love yourself.
 * I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.
 * I don't own emotion, I rent!
 * Dying in America / At the end of the millennium / We're dying in America / To come into our own / And when you're dying in America / At the end of the millennium / You're not alone

title: Jonathan Larson


text:
November 7

November 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

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

 * 2004
 * Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ Wendell Berry
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I found a book on how to be invisible — On the edge of the labyrinth — Under a veil you must never lift — Pages you must never turn — In the Labyrinth. ~ Kate Bush in "How to Be Invisible" on Aerial
 * proposed by Kalki (Aerial, Bush's first album in 12 years, was released internationally on 7 November 2005)

 * 2006
 * The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. ~ Albert Camus
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. ~ Albert Camus
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names ...Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. ~ R. A. Lafferty (born 7 November 1914)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists. ~ David Petraeus
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions. ~ Albert Camus
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. ~ Andrew Dickson White
 * used 18 September 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. ~ The Rebel by Albert Camus, born that day.
 * 3 Kalki 00:13, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ~ Albert Camus
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

You stand in front of a million doors, Each one holds a million more. ~ Kate Bush ~ (2005: international release date of her first album in 12 yrs)
 * 3 Kalki 00:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC) I am no longer strongly inclined to use this here, as the release was last year, but will keep it as a potential option in years to come.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 0. I can't find this quote on the Kate Bush page. - InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Wrong Prong, Bong Gong. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki 03:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Somewhat enigmatic, but it is meant to be in the book as well.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. ~ Leon Trotsky (born November 7)
 * 3 because insurrection when planned correctly can recreate history, much like art can recreate an image. Nice comparison by Trotsky, whom remains one of my personal favorites. Zarbon 16:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: War and Conflict Quotations by Michael C. Thomsett, Jean F. Thomsett - Reference - 1997 - Page 127
 * 3 Kalki 14:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. ~ Leon Trotsky (born November 7)
 * 3 because to learn from one's enemies carries the danger of becoming like them. It's a great quote to say the least. Zarbon 16:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Quotable Graduate - Page 54 by Heidi Reinholdt, John Ross - Reference - 2003
 * 3 Kalki 14:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * InvisibleSun, the source is listed right here... Zarbon 06:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you. ~ Leon Trotsky (born November 7)
 * 3 because even for someone uninterested in politics, government, etc. will find those things interested in that person's life. This is extremely true. Zarbon 16:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE:Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, and Political Science - Page 48 by John S. Dryzek - Political Science - 1990
 * 3 Kalki 14:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble. ~ R. A. Lafferty (born 7 November 1914)
 * 3 Kalki 14:04, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 12:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki 15:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki 15:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Listen now to a series of sayings that always come hard to brave people. Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted. We will break up persons of blight and centers of blight. But often, and this will be the hard part for all of you to understand, we will warn and advise before we kill. And quite often we will not kill at all. Try to understand this.. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki 15:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. ~ Albert Camus
 * 3 Kalki 15:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. ~ Albert Camus
 * 3 Kalki 15:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are no easy choices. The way ahead will be very hard … But hard is not hopeless. ~ David Petraeus
 * 3 Kalki 15:41, 7 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Science has suffered in having her name applied to mechanics, an ugly step-child of hers. Matter herself is a humiliation to the serious. We cannot make it vanish forever, but can make it seem to. For my purpose that is even better. All matter can be modified as long as it is kept subjective. Let us keep it so. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

An excess of science will leave none of us alive. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Be not nervous. In a very little while you will either be a member or you will not be. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are no rules. We do whatever seems the most fun. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We ourselves become the bridges out over the interval that is the world and time. It is a daring thing to fling ourselves out over that void that is black and scarlet below and green and gold above. A bridge does not abandon its first shore when it grows out in spans towards the further one. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The devils stroll the earth again and infect with the red sickness. They must, at all cost to themselves, destroy the growing tendrils before such can touch the other side. For, whenever one least growing creeper touches across the interval, that means the extinction of a devil. It is a thing to be tested. ~ R. A. Lafferty
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:07, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. ~ Marie Curie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ~ Marie Curie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ~ Marie Curie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

What better way to find the true age of the Earth than with the uranium atom? If you knew what fraction of the uranium in a rock had turned into lead, you could calculate how much time had passed since the rock was formed. ~ In commemoration of the 7 November 1867 birth of Marie Curie, trailblazing researcher on radioactivity and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, from the seventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:34, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

title: November 7


text:
December 7

December 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world? ~ Harry Chapin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ Willa Cather (born (7 December 1873)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~ Thornton Wilder (died 7 December 1975)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * It's an alethiometer. It's one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. … It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it's getting lighter... ~ Philip Pullman (Quote from The Golden Compass (1995) the movie adaptation opening on 7 December 2007)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~ Willa Cather
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. ~ Algernon Sydney (executed on this date, no birthdate known)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Being able to do as one pleases is the natural goal of the libertarian, but having nothing to do is not. While it may be correct to say that the human species is badly prepared for having nothing to do, it is quite a different matter to say that it is badly prepared for the freedom to do as one pleases. People who are able to do as they please may work very hard, given the opportunity to do interesting work. ~ Noam Chomsky
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

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 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Matchups

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
 * used 4 April 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate — that's my philosophy. ~ Thornton Wilder in The Skin of Our Teeth (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Nice quote, but in general, and mostly for consistency, I'd rather see quotes on the writer's date of birth (April 17 in this case, which already has used two of his quotes and has several more suggested) than death. Matchups 18:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC) I agree with Matchups, especially when there are so many usable quotes from people born this day.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. ~ Thornton Wilder (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * * 3 Kalki 23:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC) I have found an early citation of this quote to T. T Munger in A dictionary of thoughts: being a cyclopedia of laconic quotations (1906) by Tryon Edwards
 * 1 Zarbon 15:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1, as above Matchups 18:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ~ Thornton Wilder (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1, as above Matchups 18:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~ Noam Chomsky
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Matchups 18:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Ever hear the old saying that beauty is only skin deep? Well, right now, all you can see is the beauty. ~ DragonBall Z's Zarbon Paul Dobson (born December 7)
 * 4 because the quote defines me. And furthermore, the dynamic parallel of beauty outside and beast inside is drawn here. Zarbon 06:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

You only saw the beauty side of me before, now with great pleasure, I introduce you to the beast! ~ DragonBall Z's Zarbon Paul Dobson (born December 7)
 * 3 because anger compensates where beauty cannot and in all fury, takes a life of its own. Zarbon 06:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man. ~ Leopold Kronecker
 * 2 Zarbon 03:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 This is an important statement in the history of mathematics. Matchups 18:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 bystander (talk) 17:53, 4 December 2012 (UTC) Perhaps a more proper interpretation, at least as it apples to mathematics, would be "God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man." While Leopold Kronecker may have been important figure in the development of number theory, I fail to see the importance of this statement to mathematics or its history.

No one conquers who doesn't fight. ~ Gabriel Biel (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC) Omnia Vincit Amor
 * I think the concept of "love conquers all" is being abused ruthlessly by you. But to make things clear, this quote means that you cannot conquer someone who does not fight...meaning a peaceful person is protected against the most powerful attack. I don't think you understood the idea behind the quote. Zarbon 06:23, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Nay, "who" refers to the subject "no one", it is not the object of "conquers." (Cf. "They also serve who only stand and wait." —John Milton, On His Blindness, 1652 ) Contemporary vernacular, seemingly wary of the relative clause, favors a conditional particular construction, "If you don't fight then you can't conquer," to express the qualified universal intended here. ~ Ningauble 14:11, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them. ~ Noam Chomsky
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ~ Willa Cather
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. ~ Willa Cather
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Oh, if a man tried

To take his time on earth

And prove before he died

What one man's life could be worth,

I wonder what would happen to this world.

~ Harry Chapin I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This quote was already used on this date in 2004. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡

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