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May 9

May 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ~ George Washington (Mother's Day 2004)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Life is a long lesson in humility. ~ J. M. Barrie (born 9 May 1860)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. ~ Nelson Mandela (inaugurated as President of the Republic of South Africa, 9 May 1994)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. ~ Sophie Scholl of the White Rose
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ J. M. Barrie (born 9 May 1860)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ~ J. M. Barrie
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well. - John Ashcroft
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. ~ J. M. Barrie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the broader significance of Victory Day in memory of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation. ~ Joe Biden
 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle (talk) 23:54, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind. ~ Baldur von Schirach (born May 9)
 * 3 and lean toward a 4, because power can corrupt anyone. Zarbon 04:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 06:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Aphaia 08:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us. ~ Baldur von Schirach (born May 9)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 06:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Aphaia 08:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Standards always are out of date. That is what makes them standards. ~ Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934)
 * 3 InvisibleSun
 * 4 Aphaia 08:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Witty, isn't it?
 * 1 Zarbon 12:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I am fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose. ~ John Brown (born May 9, 1800)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 08:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 12:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. ~ John Ashcroft
 * 3 Zarbon 02:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Through it all, I've learned to trust that God does indeed have a plan and purpose for me. Trust doesn't come into play when you can figure everything out; that's mere reason. Trust operates when you can't understand why circumstances or events happen. That's where it takes faith to believe that God knows what is best for our lives. ~ John Ashcroft
 * 3 Zarbon 02:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep. ~ John Ashcroft
 * 3 Zarbon 02:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information. ~ John Ashcroft
 * 3 Zarbon 20:15, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. ~ J. M. Barrie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

What is your name?’ ‘Peter Pan.’ She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name. ‘Is that all?’ ‘Yes,’ he said rather sharply. He felt for the first time that it was a shortish name. ‘I’m so sorry,’ said Wendy Moira Angela. ‘It doesn’t matter,’ Peter gulped. She asked where he lived. ‘Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.’ ‘What a funny address!’ Peter had a sinking feeling. For the first time he felt that perhaps it was a funny address. ~ J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon. Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremor ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure." ~ J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ~ J. M. Barrie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die." Many clapped. Some didn't. A few beasts hissed. The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have like to get at the ones who had hissed. ~ J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I know well that many of my readers do not think as I do. This also is most natural and confirms the theorem. For although my opinion turn out erroneous, there will always remain the fact that many of those dissentient readers have never given five minutes' thought to this complex matter. How are they going to think as I do? But by believing that they have a right to an opinion on the matter without previous effort to work one out for themselves, they prove patently that they belong to that absurd type of human being which I have called the "rebel mass." ~ José Ortega y Gasset in The Revolt of the Masses
 * 3 N6n 09:50, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or an eventual 4 — there are many others by Ortega y Gasset and J. M. Barrie which I generally prefer.

The State is always, whatever be its form — primitive, ancient, medieval, modern — an invitation issued by one group of men to other human groups to carry out some enterprise in common. That enterprise, be its intermediate processes what they may, consists in the long run in the organisation of a certain type of common life. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.… These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself — good or ill — based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Life is fired at us point blank. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:36, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

title: May 9


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June 9

June 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles. ~ Anne Bancroft (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When you were born in this world Everyone laughed while you cried Conduct not yourself in manner such That they laugh when you are gone. ~ Kabir (à propos of recent death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? ~ Cole Porter ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh. ~ Cole Porter ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, Heaven knows, Anything goes. ~ Cole Porter ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in. Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in.  ~ Cole Porter ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in ~ Cole Porter ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on a summons to appear in a federal court.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Ficaia

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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title: June 9


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July 9

July 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad. ~ T. H. White in The Once and Future King
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. ~ Anne Frank, who went into the infamous attic on 9 July 1942 (Note: Wikipedia's July 9 page earlier claimed that Anne Frank and her family moved to the attic on this date. However, both her diary and the Müller biography state this happened on 6 July 1942.Wikipedia articles for July 9, July 6, and Anne Frank have been updated to reflect this.)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. ~ David Hockney (born 9 July 1937)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death. ~ Bertrand Russell (in the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued on 9 July 1955).
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ~ U. G. Krishnamurti
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. ~ June Jordan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties? ~ Bertrand Russell (in the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued on 9 July 1955).
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. - William Jennings Bryan delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech 9 July 1896.
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki (mistakenly repeated, after first being used in 2009 on this date).

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * 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
 * used 7 June 2009, proposed by Kalki

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
Food, clothing and shelter- these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. ~ U. G. Krishnamurti
 * 3 Zarbon 15:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:51, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The body is not interested in anything 'you' are interested in; that is the battle that is going on all the time. ~ U. G. Krishnamurti
 * 3 because humans abuse and misuse their bodies. Zarbon 15:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:51, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture. ~ U. G. Krishnamurti
 * 3 because the surrounding corrupts. Zarbon 15:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 19:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go. ~ Dean Koontz
 * 2 Zarbon 15:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:51, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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September 9

September 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * What's another word for Thesaurus? ~ Steven Wright
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged — keep on — there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ~ Madeleine L'Engle (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man. I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that. I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all. I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~ Mao Zedong, died this day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 because protection by police force and military force is not uncommon and it is truly beautiful in its stature, an enigmatic symbol of political power, something I highly respect with all my being. Zarbon 22:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle Enigmatic? This quote should be moved to Mao's birth date. 17:04, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

The law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * 3 Kalki 04:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. Or at least to discuss it. There isn't enough discussion in the world. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Narrating incredible things as though they were real — old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible — the new. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it so. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

The problems that agitate one generation are extinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

The act — the act — must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I forgive everyone and to everyone I ask forgiveness. Well enough? Don't gossip too much. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

title: September 9


text:
October 9

October 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ~ Groucho Marx
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon ~ (born 9 October 1940)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps. Reader, if you have not grasped — read again, after a while. The predestined is not accidental, The leaves fall in their time. And winter is but the harbinger of spring. All is revealed; all is attainable. ~ Nicholas Roerich ~ (born 9 October 1874)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me. ~ John Lennon ~
 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2010
 * There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. All you need is love. ~ John Lennon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011: Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. ~ Nicholas Roerich
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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
We're more popular than Jesus now. ~ John Lennon (date of birth)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki 21:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC) A famous quote, but one that Lennon himself stated was readily taken the wrong way by many people. If this is eventually used I would prefer to extend it for context:
 * I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. ~ Ivo Andric
 * 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ~ Ivo Andric
 * 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness. ~ Ivo Andric
 * 3 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ~ Ivo Andric
 * 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ~ Ivo Andric
 * 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty. ~ Nicholas Roerich
 * 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are no problems, only solutions. ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

''Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.'' ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you Julia. ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Last year was "All You Need Is Love." This year it's "Give Peace a Chance." Remember love. The only hope for any of us is peace. Violence begets violence. If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like. ~ John Lennon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: October 9


text:
November 9

November 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * "The time has come", the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and Kings — And why the Sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings."  ~ Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ Carl Sagan (born 9 November 1934)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. ~ Carl Sagan
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To love another is something like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. ~ ~ Anne Sexton ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ Carl Sagan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. ~ Carl Sagan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how … rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not — that none of us — are alone! … I wish I could share that. I wish, that everyone, if only for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and hope. But … that continues to be my wish. ~ "Ellie Arroway" in Contact based on the novel by Carl Sagan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. ~ Carl Sagan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warm the stars. A writer is essentially a spy. Dear love, I am that girl. ~ Anne Sexton (born November 9, 1928)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 04:56, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind. ~ Anne Sexton
 * 4 InvisibleSun 10:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 04:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. ~ Anne Sexton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 04:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I love you the way the oboe plays. I love you the way skinny dipping makes my body feel. I love you the way a ripe artichoke tastes. Yet I fear you, as one in the desert fears the sun. ~ Anne Sexton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 04:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki 12:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC) but would now prefer to extend this to :
 * How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?" Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC) I prefer the shorter version to the longer version.

 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:45, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 05:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC) I prefer the shorter version to the longer version, because the shorter one is more memorable.

I believe it is an act of delusion to look for (or more so), discover a so-called "educated" preacher/evangelist. Thus, no evangelist/preacher can be better than the other. But I agree, they can be worse. ~ Nadeem F. Paracha
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 05:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Either I'm just too paranoid or this is just my way of now playing the sardonic court jester instead of the "angry young man" who once actually believed in the logic and persuasive power of cohesive literary narratives as a means to bring about change. ~ Nadeem F. Paracha
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 05:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I'd rather fight for a tree than die for a God. ~ Nadeem F. Paracha
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 05;02, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start. ~ Alan Kotok
 * 2 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground. ~ Alan Kotok
 * 2 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

There's the moon trying to look romantic Moon's too old that's her trouble Aren't we all? ~ Roger McGough
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

The general at the radar screen he should have got the sack But that wouldn't bring Three thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back, Would it? ~ Roger McGough
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

The general at the radar screen Rubbed his hands with glee, And grinning pressed the button And started world war three. ~ Roger McGough
 * 3 Zarbon 17:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Democracy may be alright for certain people in the world, but I don't think the type of democracy Fiji needs is the type Australia and New Zealand enjoy. ~ Jona Senilagakali
 * 3 Zarbon 18:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet, we speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:27, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly all right; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads. But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history… of history. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC) * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 4 05:03, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all humanity. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenure of this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage — propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders — all of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children and desire to learn from history and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence — the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perspective awaits us. There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. Travel is broadening. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. Public libraries depend on voluntary contributions. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC) * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 4 05:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC) This line may not be the most insightful thing Sagan ever said, but at this point it is truly iconic. Ann Druyan and Steven Soter used a recording of Carl Sagan saying these words again in the intro to the updated version of Cosmos in 2014. I'd love to see it as a quote of the day.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star. ~ Carl Sagan
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:18, 10 August 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The next golden age of human achievement begins here and now: New Year's Day of the next cosmic year. In the first tenth of a second, we take the vision of the Pale Blue Dot to heart, and learn how to share this tiny world with each other. . . as the effects of climate change reverse and diminish. A fifth of a second into this future people will stop dying from the effects of poverty. The planet is now a completely self-sustaining, intercommunicating organism. ~ In commemoration of the 9 November 1934 birth of Carl Sagan, from the eleventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:35, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the Pale Blue Dot, the only home we've ever known. ~ Recording of Carl Sagan's voice over a re-imagining of the "Pale Blue Dot" image of Earth taken by Voyager 1, in commemoration of Sagan's birth on 9 November 1934. From the thirteenth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:04, 13 October 2016 (UTC) This quote from Sagan gets my single "4" vote for this date, this year, because it seems to me that this is the idea Sagan emphasized more than anything else as he was approaching death.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

title: November 9


text:
December 9

December 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We take men for what they are worth — and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might — perhaps not strong enough — to put an end to it. ~ Peter Kropotkin (born 9 December 1842)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ John Milton (born 9 December 1608)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * Man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at the best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support not mutual struggle — has had the leading part. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ~ Grace Hopper
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. … Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past … it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst — not by subjecting all its members to an authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. ~ John Milton in Paradise Lost ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to recent death of Glenn.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton
 * used 6 March 2004, selected by Kalki

 * As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2005, proposed by UDScott

 * One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good. ~ Peter Kropotkin
 * used 8 February 2007, proposed by Fys

 * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2008, proposed by Kalki

 * Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2010, proposed by Kalki

 * I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
 * used 23 November 2011, proposed by Kalki

 * used 23 November 2012, proposed by Kalki

 * used 23 November 2017, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions

 * DOB: Ernest Gellner · Grace Hopper · Henry Way Kendall · Peter Kropotkin · John Milton

It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A They have everything for you men to enjoy, You can hang out with all the boys ~ Y-M-C-A, The Village People in honor of the first YMCA established in North America, this day on 1851
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 0 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Lyle 21:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment is this so much of the song that there is a potential copyvio issue? Matchups 15:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ~ John Milton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. ~ John Milton
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC) This has now been used, as the start of the QOTD for 23 November 2017. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:08, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * this was already used on 23 November 2008. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. ~ John Milton
 * 3 bystander (talk) 09:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * this was already used on 23 November 2012. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

title: December 9


text:
January 10

January 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... … the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken. ~ Robinson Jeffers (born 10 January 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly used to kill men, but here In the sense of a symbol. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ James Anthony Froude (this was long misattributed to Lord Acton, and initially presented as a quote by him; subsequent research for Wikiquote helped bring to an end some of the most extensive uses of this misattribution.)
 * used 30 June 2004, selected by Kalki

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * used 9 August 2004, selected by Kalki

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. ~ Lord Acton
 * used 18 January 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
"You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds.
 * Posted on 7 January 2006, at the January 10th QotD page, by IP 67.37.190.144
 * 2 Kalki 23:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC) (no clear correlation to the date)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia, Australia and white Antartica: those are the eyelids that never close; this is the staring unsleeping Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars. ~ Robinson Jeffers (born January 10, 1887)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education. ~ Fukuzawa Yukichi
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

title: January 10


text:
February 10

February 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down. ~ Jimmy Durante (born 10 February 1893)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ~ Boris Pasternak (born 10 February 1890)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ~ Charles de Montesquieu (died 10 February 1755)
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2008
 * Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. ~ Bertolt Brecht (born 10 February 1898)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~ Bertolt Brecht
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Reason gains all men, by compelling none. Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark: And he, who bears it not, has no friend there. ~ Aaron Hill ~
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2011
 * Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable! ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. ~ Bertolt Brecht
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki as one of the most famous and striking quotes about serpents, for the start of the Chinese Year of the Snake

 * 2014

 * proposed by Fys

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. ~ Bertolt Brecht.
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. ~ Charles Lamb (born February 10, 1775)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. - Charles Lamb
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

What answer can we give to the families of victims of the Karabakh movement and to those who have become disabled. Why did their sons fight? And about Turkey, we cannot leave the word genocide out of our vocabulary and forget about the 1.5 million victims. ~ Mikael Harutyunyan (born February 10)
 * 3 Zarbon 05:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:21, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

''Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme, Do not repent, but regulate your passion: Though love is reason, its excess is rage. Give me, at least, your promise to reflect, In cool, impartial solitude, and still. No last decision till we meet again.'' ~ Aaron Hill ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

You talk no more of that gay nation now, Where men adore their wives, and woman's power Draws reverence from a polished people's softness, Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens; Free without scandal; wise without restraint; Their virtue due to nature, not to fear. ~ Aaron Hill ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. ~ Aaron Hill ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. ’Tis the same with common natures: Use ’em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well. ~ Aaron Hill ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot." ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; a statement by Beck which I can fully agree with, and with extreme emphasis.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination. ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it. ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC) 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:25, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny. ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 bystander 22:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (I don't really like Beck, but I like the quote.)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. ~ Glenn Beck
 * 3 bystander 22:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (I don't really like Beck, but I like the quote.)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another? ~ Bertolt Brecht.
 * 3 bystander 22:19, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean towards 4).
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:48, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:48, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

title: February 10


text:
March 10

March 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard (born 10 March 1847)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean. ~ Edie Brickell ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks. ~ Kate Sheppard
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. ~ Joaquin Miller ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do. ~ Edie Brickell ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt I knew thee, in thy glorious youth, And loved thy vast face, white as truth; I stood where thunderbolts were wont To smite thy Titan-fashioned front, And heard dark mountains rock and roll; I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll The awful autograph of God! ~ Joaquin Miller ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Anonymous
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
''Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.'' ~ Edie Brickell ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. ~ Edie Brickell
 * 2 Zarbon 16:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) interesting line, but in some ways not clearly indicative of the full point of the song.
 * 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few but such as cannot write, translate. ~ John Denham (date of birth unknown/date of death)
 * 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ~ John Denham
 * 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid. ~ John Denham
 * 3 or in other words, don't mess with what you shouldn't. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. ~ John Denham
 * 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The very clouds have wept and died And only God is in the sky. ~ Joaquin Miller
 * 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! ~ Harriet Tubman (date of birth unknown/date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. ~ Friedrich Schlegel (born 1772 March 10)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

True virtue is genius. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

title: March 10


text:
April 10

April 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt (born 10 April 1778)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. ~ George William Russell (born 10 April 1867)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ~ William Hazlitt (born 10 April 1778)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * They knew me from the dawn of time: if Hermes beats his rainbow wings, If Angus shakes his locks of light, or golden-haired Apollo sings, It matters not the name, the land; my joy in all the gods abides: Even in the cricket in the grass some dimness of me smiles and hides. ~ Æ ~ [George William Russell] (born 10 April 1867)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ~ William Hazlitt
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * It was the wise all-seeing soul Who counselled neither war nor peace: "Only be thou thyself that goal In which the wars of time shall cease." ~ Æ ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Oh Master of the Beautiful, Creating us from hour to hour, Give me this vision to the full To see in lightest things thy power! This vision give, no heaven afar, No throne, and yet I will rejoice, Knowing beneath my feet a star, Thy word in every wandering voice. ~ Æ ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. ~ William Hazlitt
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to 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…

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

 * Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. ~ William Hazlitt
 * used on 3 April 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ~ William Hazlitt
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 23:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Arjen Dijksman 13:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~ Howard Thurman (date of death, exact date of birth unknown)
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 06:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: "Jesus and the Disinherited" - Page 74 - by Howard Thurman - Religion - 1996
 * 2 Arjen Dijksman 13:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:41, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. ~ Paul Theroux
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. ~ Paul Theroux
 * 3 for he who loves life knows it not until death arrives. Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there has been too much of) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected. ~ Paul Theroux
 * 2 Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC) Perhaps without the first sentence.
 * 3. Agree with not including the first sentence. - InvisibleSun 21:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC) and agree it is best to drop the first sentence, though some of the rest remains flawed also, though I understand the point he is trying to make.

You have to find out for yourself. Take the leap. Go as far as you can. Try staying out of touch. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility. Learn the language. Listen to what people are saying. ~ Paul Theroux
 * 2 Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC) Without referent. Rather jumbled.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

While Women weep as they do now, I'll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, I'll fight. While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight. I'll fight to the very end! ~ William Booth
 * 2 Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * — Dubious provenance. ~ Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it. ~ William Booth
 * 3 with a strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 04:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 20:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC) I find this disparaging of those willing and able to fight to the finish, but who love it not.
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC) though it is in some ways misleading.

NOTE: The following suggestions are for the Dragon Ball movie that is being released in theaters on this date

Watch Gohan! I said watch! Don't turn away! Honor his bravery! ~ ~ Piccolo (Dragon Ball: Evolution The Movie is to be released in theaters on this date)
 * 2 though I still prefer the first Dragon Ball suggestion. Zarbon 14:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

It's ironic, isn't it? After all my years of training to defeat your father, I go out like this, trying to save you, his son...Gohan, you're the only real friend that I've ever had. I wanna thank you...I still remember the first day I brought you here. You were small, helpless. You've changed so much since then. The harder things got. The more determined you became. The more dangers you faced, the stronger you grew as a warrior. I know I was hard on you, but it was for your own good. You're like the son I never had. I'm proud of you. ~ Piccolo (Dragon Ball: Evolution The Movie is to be released in theaters on this date)
 * 3 though I still prefer the first Dragon Ball suggestion. Zarbon 14:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

No fighter that has ever won a victory did so using his fists alone. All battles are won before they are even fought. ~ Piccolo (Dragon Ball: Evolution The Movie is to be released in theaters on this date)
 * 3 though I still prefer the first Dragon Ball suggestion. Zarbon 14:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, soon you'll realize that the people on this planet aren't logical at all. Funny thing is, they've rubbed off on me. ~ Piccolo (Dragon Ball: Evolution The Movie is to be released in theaters on this date)
 * 3 though I still prefer the first Dragon Ball suggestion. Zarbon 14:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

You know, I used to be like you. One day you'll learn...that the more you hurt others, the harder your life becomes. It's simple. Your desire to kill is killing you! It's a darn shame! You could've put this hand to good use! What a waste of technology! ~ Piccolo (Dragon Ball: Evolution The Movie is to be released in theaters on this date)
 * 2 though I still prefer the first Dragon Ball suggestion. Zarbon 14:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:40, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

title: April 10


text:
May 10

May 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. ~ P. L. Travers
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ Bono (born 10 May 1960)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ Karl Barth (born 10 May 1886)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, (d. 10 May 1696)
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2008
 * We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other... one. ~ Bono ~ (Born 10 May 1960)
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2009
 * Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story. ~ John Crowley
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case What you don't have you don't need it What you don't know you can feel it somehow ~ Bono ~
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2011
 * I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment. ~ Karl Barth
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for Mother's Day in the U.S., 2015.

 * 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; DOB + recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ~ Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, (d. 10 May 1696)
 * 3 --Aphaia 05:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Since La Bruyère was born on August 16, I would propose that this quote be transferred to that date. - InvisibleSun 15:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain. ~ Karl Barth (born May 10)
 * 3 because the image of God is not visible to the physical man...for the man of the material world is blinded by illusion. Zarbon 05:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 03:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 02:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC) the statement is true, but without greater context can easily be misinterpreted to mean things Barth had not intended which are false.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Eternity is here (in the stable at Bethlehem and on the cross of Calvary) in time. ~ Karl Barth
 * 3 Kalki 09:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC) (though this might be better around Christmas time or on a Good Friday)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:31, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

[The Harvard Observatory Computers included]  Annie Jump Cannon, the leader of the team [who eventually] catalogued a quarter of a million stars, [and]  Henrietta Swan Leavitt [who]  discovered the law that astronomers still use more than a century later to measure the distances to the stars. . . . [Cannon provided classification data to Cecilia Payne, whose]  "Stellar Atmospheres" is widely regarded as the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy. ~ In commemoration of the May 10, 1900 birth of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from the eighth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 23:58, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC) without any disregard of the worth of any of those mentioned, I simply believe that this is a rather low quality statement for use as QOTD.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 2, with a lean toward 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 10 May 2021 (UTC), (this is the trimmed-out remainder and lead portion of a partially-used previous suggestion first provided on 9 May 2018, and the other portion used 10 May 2021).

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

title: May 10