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February 5

February 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ~ Theodore Roosevelt
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I profoundly believe that there is on this horizon, as yet only dimly perceived, a new dawn of conscience. In that purer light, people will come to see themselves in each other, which is to say they will make themselves known to one another by their similarities rather than by their differences. Man's knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man's knowledge of self. The significance rtt a smaller world will be measured not in terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat. ~ Adlai Stevenson (born 5 February 1900)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose. ~ Adlai Stevenson II (born 5 February 1900)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * God needeth not the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the Spirit in the affairs of conscience. ~ Roger Williams (early advocate of freedom of conscience in religious matters, and the separation of Church and State, he emigrated from England to America on this date in 1631)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. ~ Adlai Stevenson II
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men. ~ Adlai Stevenson II
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will. ~ Roger Williams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~ Adlai Stevenson II
 * proposed by Thenub314

 * 2012
 * Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. ~ Adlai Stevenson II
 * 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, regarding recent remarks on significant historical events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: William S. Burroughs · Barbara Hershey · Dwight L. Moody · Johan Ludvig Runeberg · Carl Spitzweg · Adlai Stevenson II · Elizabeth Swados

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. ~ Roger Williams
 * 3 Kalki 20:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm Ready, I'm Ready, I'm Ready! ~ Spongebob Squarepants

 * 1 Kalki 07:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC) (minor quote, no clear relation to the date)
 * 0 Zarbon 21:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on. ~ William S. Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki 12:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2.5 ~ DanielTom (talk) 22:18, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

A functioning police state needs no police. ~ William S. Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki 12:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Hell hath no vociferous fury than an endangered parasite. ~ William S. Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki 12:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. ~ William S. Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki 12:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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March 5

March 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. ~ Dawn of the Dead (1978) by George Romero
 * proposed by IP 172.170.76.22

 * 2005
 * The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." ~ Grace Hopper
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. ~ Rosa Luxemburg (born 5 March 1870 or 1871)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. ~ Penn Jillette (born 5 March 1955)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. ~ Penn Jillette
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. ~ William Beveridge
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze But is the echo of some voice beloved: Its pines have human tones; its billows wear The color and the sparkle of dear eyes. Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful Because of something lovelier than themselves, Which breathes within them, and will never die.— Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom; Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven. ~ Lucy Larcom ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ~ Zhou Enlai
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
HOPE
 * Sees the invisible
 * Feels the intangible
 * Achieves the impossible

 * initially proposed on the posting page as "A saying quoted often from memory by my sister (source is unknown)" by Tara 11:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 2 Kalki 21:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC) (a good statement, but I greatly prefer using traceable quotes to anonymous ones for QOTD, as well as ones with some relevance to the date)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC) - I like the quote, but since it is unsourced, I do not feel it is appropriate for QOTD.

All the world's most powerful governments pay millions of dollars for seas and deserts, 100's of acres of land bought for ownership, and improvement done for later benefit. Because it's land that is forever stable, money is just paper. ~ Vazgen Sargsyan (born March 5)
 * 3 because land has remained stagnant although many things are not. Zarbon 04:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing shocks me more than ferocity against the vanquished, especially when victors take poses. Between the dogs and the wolf, I shall always side with the wolf, especially when he is wounded. ~ Jacques Vergès
 * 3 Zarbon 02:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all … but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it. ~ Zhou Enlai
 * 2 Zarbon 02:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 2 Kalki 17:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC), with perhaps still a lean toward 2.
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. ~ Siegbert Tarrasch
 * 3 Zarbon 02:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 2 Kalki 17:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC) this is a misattribution, it is actually a statement of Aron Nimzowitsch.
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place. ~ Austen Henry Layard
 * 3 Zarbon 02:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:34, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo 13:57, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 because it's witty and Pavese is not only about suffering. Nemo 13:57, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 0 bystander (talk) 16:32, 19 February 2012 (UTC) Don't understand connection to this date.
 * Not every quotation can (or should) have a connection with the date. --Nemo 14:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That observation is correct, and when there is no clear connection with the date which I can discern, but the quote itself is notable I often will rank it at least a 1, and sometimes 2 or more. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC) 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC) though I might rank it higher on a page clearly related by date, or if nothing better connected to the date were to be suggested here.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 March 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 4 March 2020 (UTC), Ibsen's portrayal of the Roman emperor Julian; in regard to the start of Julian's military campaign against the Sasanian Empire on this date in 363.

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April 5

April 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ C.S. Lewis
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~ Booker T. Washington (born 5 April 1856)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death; Death could not sever my soul and you, As these have severed your soul from me. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. ~ Jesus
 * proposed by 99of9

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the recent acceptance of Finland into NATO.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * used 18 March 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 12:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 12:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * 3 because everyone can attack, but it takes a man of high caliber to restrain oneself. Zarbon 17:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC) (but this is a quote of Thucydides which Powell used, and should be noted as such — and thus I am inclined to rank at 3 if properly cited.)
 * 2 if credited to Thucydides. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * 3 because this is a principle to live by. Zarbon 17:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * 3 because everyone can be placed under the same circumstances...but sometimes, it is the man's character that differentiates him from others. Zarbon 04:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or eventual 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pasture or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) needs more context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Dream that the lips once breathless Might quicken if they would; Say that the soul is deathless; Dream that the gods are good; Say March may wed September, And time divorce regret; But not that you remember, And not that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) (but would trim the first word, as there really isn't much context here, without the preceding stanza of the poem "Faustine" and the final words of this one.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Fear that makes faith may break faith. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) but only if extended to read:
 * Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.

 * 3 for the extended quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) the full context is not provided by this, but I could rank it a 3 or 4 eventually if extended to read:
 * Though there had never been any time wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another, yet in all times kings and persons of sovereign authority, because of their independency, are in continual jealousies, and in the state and posture of gladiators, having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their forts, garrisons, and guns upon the frontiers of their kingdoms, and continual spies upon their neighbours, which is a posture of war. But because they uphold thereby the industry of their subjects, there does not follow from it that misery which accompanies the liberty of particular men. To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

 * 3 for either form of the quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) there is too little context within this and the previous quote to provide clear and proper sense of what Hobbes was actually saying, and I would prefer to extend this considerably to indicate more of that, and in extended form I could rank it a 3 or a 4:
 * Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

 * 3 for the extended quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is peace. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 with a lean toward 2. Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The passions that incline men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them. And reason suggesteth convenient articles of peace upon which men may be drawn to agreement. These articles are they which otherwise are called the laws of nature... ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

''Being come to flood and fullness now, the tide Is risen in mine as in the sea's own heart To tempest and to triumph. Not for nought Am I that wild wife's bridegroom — old and hoar, Not sapless yet nor soulless.'' ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices. ~ John C. Dvorak
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. ~ John C. Dvorak
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 3.

We take no note of time but from its loss. ~ Edward Young
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

 * 4 Lisa (talk) 08:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC) thought provoking and poetic
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2021 (UTC) — but would extend this for context to read:
 * Eyes are sensory organs. They sense what’s going on in the world around us, but they also tell others how we feel. Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

title: April 5


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May 5

May 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. ~ Principia Discordia, "The Law of Fives"
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm. ~ Benito Juárez (Cinco de Mayo, and 05-05-05)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Once you label me you negate me. ~ Søren Kierkegaard (born 5 May 1813)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ~ Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2008
 * If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? ~ Søren Kierkegaard (born 5 May 1813)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it — and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you — for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. ~ Søren Kierkegaard in Either/Or
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2011
 * Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. ~ Karl Marx (born 5 May 1818)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * You cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki for US opening date of film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

 * 2018

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 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.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * used 7 July 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Søren Kierkegaard (misattributed, removed from that page)
 * used 17 August 2004, selected by Kalki

 * When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ Søren Kierkegaard, The Works of Love
 * used 14 February 2007, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being. -- Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death
 * 3 Aphaia 09:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. -- Søren Kierkegaard
 * 3 Aphaia 09:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm in the middle of finding sources for the unsourced quotes on the Kierkegaard page. This unsourced quote is one of a number of variants, including "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived," "Life is not mystery to be solved, but a reality to be experienced", and all the other permutations of the same. Although the quote is most frequently attributed to Kierkegaard, I haven't yet found a source for it and would hesitate to recommend it unless it was sourced. Other people are also attributed with the quote: one of them, J.J. van der Leeuw, is the only person so far to whom I can trace it, as seen here in a book dated 1928. - InvisibleSun 11:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I HOPE it originated with Kierkegaard, because it is so widely attributed I used a variant of it already: "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved" on 17 August 2004. ~ Kalki 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. --Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach". (also born on May 5)
 * 3 Aphaia 09:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. ~ Karl Marx (born May 5, 1818)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 16:06, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless. ~ Sergei Akhromeyev (born May 5)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:37, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: The New York Times, "Mr. Darman's Sermon" July 29, 1989
 * 1 This is an unsourced quote. It is also not clear what it refers to: the Cold War, presumably, but a reader shouldn't have to guess at this meaning out of context. - InvisibleSun 08:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 12:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Poor nations which loves more freedom than motherland. ~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 12:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC) this is seems to be a very poor translation of an unsourced statement.

It is subjectivity that Christianity is concerned with, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all; objectively, Christianity has no existence. ~ Søren Kierkegaard in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
 * 3 Kalki 21:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC) 4 Kalki 22:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4; this is both perplexing and startling to the casual thinker, and profound in its implications as to the actual reality of Love, Truth, the Beauty that arises through both, and all the subjective emotions, which do not "exist" at all merely "objectively" and cannot, any more than Life itself can, or Awareness itself can, or Reality itself can. I would prefer the statement far more strongly if the more general term "Religion" were used, but in quoting Kierkegaard, he generally used the more specific though still diversely understood term "Christianity."
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

title: May 5


text:
June 5

June 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~ John Maynard Keynes (born 5 June 1883)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you. For posterity I sing of your profile and grace. Of the signal maturity of your understanding. Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth. Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety. ~ Federico García Lorca (born 5 June 1898)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10000 years ago. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016
 * proposed by Kalki, in memoriam — recent death.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

 * 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.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (June,3,1944) ~ General George Smith Patton, Jr.
 * Deuxhero 01:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Rationale:June 5th is when his famous speech to the 3rd army was given (along with this quote).
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC) The famous speech, with slight variations, was actually given out over several days in June as Patton addressed the troops at several locations.
 * 3 Always liked this quote Zarbon 13:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider? ~ Federico García Lorca
 * 3 if the nice imagery of the horse is seen here. Zarbon 04:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. ~ Federico García Lorca
 * 4 because this is a great quote. In both instances, it seems to be out of our hands, so to speak. It was never the decision of the person who is born to want to be born, and likewise, the worry is never attributed with any instance. Nice, nice picture depicted here. Zarbon 04:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny. ~ Charles Hartshorne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 2 because this says it outright. Zarbon 05:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2. The quote could use more context to see what he was referring to. InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 2 for another outright gesture. Zarbon 05:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 3 for being outright. Zarbon 05:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would revise this for accuracy to the earliest accounts of the remark:
 * The astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds. A definition of "capitalism" atrributed to John Maynard Keynes

 * 3; but did he really say "most wickedest" and not "most wicked"? InvisibleSun 22:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits — a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease … But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom. ~ John Maynard Keynes
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Terms like "liberty" and "individual freedom" invoked by generations of Americans who battled to widen the 1787 promise to "promote the general welfare" have been perverted to create a government primarily dedicated to the state and the political class that runs it. Yes, Virginia, there is a class war and ordinary people are losing it. ~ Bill Moyers (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:56, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. ~ Bill Moyers
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:56, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 I agree with this completely. Teachers are responsible for nurturing the next generation, yet in some schools (mine included) they only get wash outs who did poorly in college. The reason is because they pay so little, and therefore can't afford a successful and knowledgeable teacher. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility. ~ Bill Moyers
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:56, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 22:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 As the development of AI has challenged the people, and the artists have been greatly affected. The quote is her personal response for people using her voice to create AI musics with her voice. It may be pessimistic, but it is an noticeable opinion regarding the AI arts. DutchOff (talk) 13:15, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

 * The man who fears to go his way alone, But follows where the greater number tread, Should hasten to his rest beneath a stone;  The great majority of men are dead. ~ Edmund Vance Cooke
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

 * The rake upon a wanton wastes the wiles Which dazzle innocence. The nettle guards itself; the lily smiles  Unheedful of defence. ~ Edmund Vance Cooke
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

title: June 5


text:
July 5

July 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
 * chosen by Nanobug, honoring Presley's first commercial hit, "That's All Right (Mama)", recorded on 5 July 1954. (This was not designated as a "Quote of the Day" but it did appear for a time in the earliest logos prior to the first official QOTD on 11 July 2003).

 * 2004
 * "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness." ~ Thomas Jefferson in an early draft of The Declaration of Independence.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * From time to time the exceptional is necessary. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors. ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables (marking the recent success of the Deep Impact space mission to comet Tempel 1)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~ Jean Cocteau (born 5 July 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ~ Jean Cocteau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature. ~ Jean Cocteau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. ~ Jean Cocteau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. ~ Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. ~ Jean Cocteau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * selected by Kalki, to replace another which had been proposed by Kalki, and initially used for a few minutes, but which had already been used in 2006.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Jeff Q, the third law of motion, on the anniversary of the publication of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (5 July 1687)

 * 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…

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
News is not at all an easy thing to do on television. A good many of the main news items are not easily made visual — therefore we have the problem of giving news with the same standards that the corporation has built up in sound. ~ BBC director General Sir Ian Jacob
 * The televised BBC News was launched on 5 July 1954.
 * 1 Jeff Q (talk) 12:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE Your Money Back! ~ Church of the SubGenius "guarantee"
 * "X-Day", the day the world was supposedly destroyed, occurred 5 July 1998.
 * 1 Jeff Q (talk) 13:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

If I had know it was harmless, I would have killed it myself. ~ Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

 * 1 Kalki 17:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC) No clear relation to the date.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:26, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 but on a more relevant date. Zarbon 05:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC) lacks context.

The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far. ~ Cecil Rhodes
 * 3 Zarbon 14:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:46, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles...on a tightrope over the abyss. ~ Andrei Gromyko
 * 2 Zarbon 14:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:46, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap! ~ Bill Watterson (born July 5, 1958) - First line in the Calvin and Hobbes comic series
 * 4 Lyle 18:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

title: July 5


text:
August 5

August 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
 * proposed by Jeffq

 * 2006
 * Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy de Maupassant (born 5 August 1850)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is. ~ Wendell Berry ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * 'Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. ~ Joseph Merrick ~ (born 5 August 1862)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011:
 * We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ~ Wendell Berry
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; remarks on the continuing war in Ukraine.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ Wendell Berry
 * used 7 November 2004, selected by Kalki

 * If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man. ~ Isaac Watts ~ (poem often used by Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", who was born this day)
 * used 17 July 2006, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. ~ Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her apartment that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know. ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
 * 3 Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong
 * 3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC) (or a variant) ; better to use this on July 21, otherwise it might be confusing to readers. ~ DanielTom (talk) 09:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC); for this date — I am more inclined to prefer it for July 20, and perhaps even there not until the 60th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2029.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

title: August 5


text:
September 5

September 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe … every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~ Hannes Alfven
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. ~ Seneca the Younger
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold those claims of individual liberty that it finds are well-founded in the Constitution, and to reject other claims against the government that it concludes are not well-founded. Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims. ~ William Rehnquist (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites — how to get in around venomous anything. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker — but crikey, education's the most important thing. ~ Steve Irwin (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. … All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. ~ Caspar David Friedrich (born 4 September 1774)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. ~ Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. ~ Caspar David Friedrich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one. ~ Black Elk (Crazy Horse died on this date in 1877; his birth date is unknown)
 * proposed by 200.203.55.240

 * 2011
 * Whether religion is a divisive or reconciling force depends on our certainty or our humility as we practice our faith in our politics. If we believe that we know God's truth and that we can embody that truth in a political agenda, we divid the realm of politics into those who are God's side, which is our side, and those with whom we disagree, who oppose the side of God. This is neither good religion nor good politics. It is not consistent with following a Lord who reached out to a variety of people — prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. If politics is the art of compromise, certainty is not really politics, for how can one compromise with God's own truth? Reconciliation depends on acknowledging that God's truth is greater than our own, that we cannot reduce it to any political platform we create, no matter how committed we are to that platform, and that God's truth is large enough to accommodate the opinions of all kinds of people, even those with whom we strongly disagree. ~ John Danforth
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone. ~ Jack Valenti, born this day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 20:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

There is only one possible route of action, Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the US has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. (Americans) make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions. ~ Jürgen Trittin, because of the recent political relevance
 * 3 Lehmann 14:38, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC) No clear relation to the date, and I feel that more interesting quotes on environmental concerns can be found than this for such dates where there are clear correlations.
 * 1 Zarbon 21:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space. ~ Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
 * 2 Zarbon 05:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

I am going away, but the State will always remain... ~ Louis XIV of France
 * 2 Zarbon 05:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ Jack Valenti
 * 3 Zarbon 05:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder. ~ Werner Herzog
 * 3 Zarbon 05:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. ~ John Danforth
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

But the public display of religion is not God. We do not put God in our nation's life by placing the Ten Commandments in courthouses, nor do we evict God by removing the Ten Commandments from public property. God is not portable. Bland prayers, offered as noncontroversial formalities after the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance do little to honor God. ~ John Danforth
 * 4 Zarbon 04:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:54, 4 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC) but with a lean toward 2, or perhaps even 3, but only if trimmed to the "The public display of religion is not God. We do not put God in our nation's life by placing the Ten Commandments in courthouses, nor do we evict God by removing the Ten Commandments from public property." (I might agree with the rest of the sentiments he expresses here, but I don't feel they make great material for a QOTD.)

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes. ~ John Danforth
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination. ~ John Danforth
 * 3 Zarbon 18:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems. ~ John Danforth
 * 3 Zarbon 18:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC) but either trimmed or extended to eliminate ambiguity as to the context of "the starting point".

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image. ~ John Danforth
 * 3 Zarbon 18:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile. ~ John Danforth
 * 2 Zarbon 18:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. ~ Crazy Horse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:10, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

title: September 5


text:
October 5

October 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ~ Marie Curie
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respect for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. ~ Václav Havel (born 5 October 1936)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. … He does not confuse truth with plausibility; he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. … The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy. ~ Denis Diderot
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ~ Václav Havel
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ~ Denis Diderot
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The only real hope of people today is probably a renewal of our certainty that we are rooted in the earth and, at the same time, in the cosmos. This awareness endows us with the capacity for self-transcendence. Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respect for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. Only someone who submits to the authority of the universal order and of creation, who values the right to be a part of it and a participant in it, can genuinely value himself and his neighbors, and thus honor their rights as well. ~ Václav Havel
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance. Awareness of all the most dangerous kinds of vanity, both in others and in ourselves. A good mind. A modest certainty about the meaning of things. Gratitude for the gift of life and the courage to take responsibility for it. Vigilance of spirit. ~ Václav Havel
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. ~ Václav Havel (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false. ~ Jonathan Edwards (born 5 October 1703)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 00:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 4 Wallacegromit1 (talk) 18:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.
 * 3 Zarbon 03:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. ~ Ray Kroc
 * 2 because principles are the foundation. Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC) but I would not actually use this unless it was sourced.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray Kroc
 * 2 because luck comes to those who try. Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC) but I would not actually use this unless it was sourced.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

None of us is as good as all of us. ~ Ray Kroc
 * 3 for the emphasis on "divided we fall, united we stand" message. Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC) but I would not actually use this unless it was sourced.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown. ~ John Addington Symonds
 * 3 Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

She smiled, and the shadows departed; She shone, and the snows were rain; And he who was frozen-hearted Bloomed up into love again. ~ John Addington Symonds
 * 2 Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Gods fade; but God abides and in man's heart Speaks with the clear unconquerable cry Of energies and hopes that can not die. ~ John Addington Symonds
 * 2 Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken. ~ Chester A. Arthur
 * 4 Zarbon 03:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC) 3 Kalki 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC) still with a lean toward 3, but there are other better quotes by others I would rank higher for now.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Usage ain't always a matter of ought. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures… But what provokes me is that only their adverse side is considered … and yet only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Truth is not for the philosopher a mistress who corrupts his imagination and whom he believes to be found everywhere; he contents himself with being able to unravel it where he can perceive it. He does not confound it with probability; he takes for true what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is only probable. He does more, and here you have a great perfection of the philosopher: when he has no reason by which to judge, he knows how to live in suspension of judgment... The philosophical spirit is, then, a spirit of observation and exactness, which relates everything to true principles... ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I felt God, if I may so speak, at the first appearance of a thunderstorm; and used to take the opportunity, at such times, to fix myself in order to view the clouds, and see the lightnings play, and hear the majestic and awful voice of God's thunder, which oftentimes was exceedingly entertaining, leading me to sweet contemplations of my great and glorious God. While thus engaged, it always seemed natural for me to sing, or chant forth my meditations; or to speak my thoughts in soliloquies with a singing voice. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can. ~ Jonathan Edwards
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Today's world, as we all know, is faced with multiple threats. From whichever angle I look at this menace, I always come to the conclusion that salvation can only come through a profound awakening of man to his own personal responsibility, which is at the same time a global responsibility. Thus, the only way to save our world, as I see it, lies in a democracy that recalls its ancient Greek roots: democracy based on an integral human personality personally answering for the fate of the community. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. On the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. Let us not be mistaken: the best government in the world, the best parliament and the best president, cannot achieve much on their own. And it would be wrong to expect a general remedy from them alone. Freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 --> 4 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. … Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. [After considering ALL of these, this was actually my top preference for 2014, but decided to go with one that had another high ranking vote for it. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:33, 3 October 2014 (UTC)]

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said. ~ Václav Havel
 * 3 Kalki 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Truth resides in the Platonic world, it doesn't interact with the physical world. N6n 15:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 4 bystander (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2014 (UTC) Seems apropos to the current state of affairs
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:33, 3 October 2014 (UTC) This is perhaps true, but seems to have too narrow a focus on "religion", almost as if it were a "motive" or primary cause, rather than an excuse or cover for evil aims.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. ~ Denis Diderot
 * 4 bystander (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2014 (UTC) Seems apropos to the current state of affairs
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:33, 3 October 2014 (UTC) I could agree with the fact that among the most dangerous of the deluded are those created by religious zealotry, but not with the assumption or implication that this is an exclusive group of exclusionist personalities or partisans. There are many forms of bigoted zealotry just as foully oppressive as the foulest of religious zealots who overtly profess a religious motive to their brutal lusts and aims.

The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958), astrophysicist and host of the 2014 science documentary television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:24, 6 October 2016 (UTC) An awesome endorsement from a notable scientist for the idea that we can find spiritual significance in the diversity and beauty wrought through evolution.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC) but perhaps extended.
 * 3 Wallacegromit1 (talk) 18:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958), astrophysicist and host of the 2014 science documentary television series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, discussing the first time he met Carl Sagan.
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 17:41, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, but perhaps extended.
 * 3 Wallacegromit1 (talk) 18:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

The difference between seeing nothing but a pebble and reading the history of the cosmos inscribed inside it is science. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, discussing a slow-growing manganese nodule from the ocean floor which shows that a star near the Earth went  supernova within the last two million years or so. From the thirteenth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:28, 13 October 2016 (UTC) This was one of the best lines from the 2014 Cosmos. I just didn't give it a "4" ranking because I think the Evolution really happened quote, above (also from Cosmos: ASO) is a more important QOTD candidate.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, but perhaps extended.
 * 3 Wallacegromit1 (talk) 18:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

title: October 5


text:
November 5

November 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. ~ George W. Bush
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. ~ Will Durant (born 5 November 1885)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. ~ Will Durant
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. ~ Traditional rhyme for Guy Fawkes Night. ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. ~ J. B. S. Haldane (born 5 November 1892)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~ Eugene V. Debs (born 5 November 1855)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. ~ Eugene V. Debs
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.  Feast, and your halls are crowded. Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * proposed by Zarbon <!-- Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 * 3 because this speaks for sorrow beatifully. Zarbon 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:01, 31 October 2011 (UTC) 3, but this has been partially used already on 14 July 2004 ~ Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC) : but also would include the further stanzas suggested by Zarbon below, which I believe are rather poor as stand-alone quotes, and the final one, for a full quotation of the complete public domain poem all at once, and thus gratest possible context of each of the portions suggested:
 * Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded. Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * 3 because sorrow compels one to feel for eternity. Wilcox does such a nice job at being thorough. I love quotations such as this, derived from and towards sadness. Zarbon 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC) The full poem has far greater character and meaning than these stanzas alone can indicate well. (I have now suggested a quotation of the full public domain poem instead of further quoting of parts of it. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:18, 31 October 2011 (UTC))
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * 3 and brilliant for the same reason as I said prior. Zarbon 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC) (I have now suggested a quotation of the full public domain poem instead of further quoting of parts of it. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:18, 31 October 2011 (UTC))
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC) -->

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for the date of V's anarchistic direct action against a fascist state, in the film, and in the source writings.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by JessRek6, in regard to the anniversary of the Sutherland Springs church shooting.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * used on 14 July 2004, selected by Kalki

 * There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * used on 1 September 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do. ~ Susan B. Anthony, voted (against the law) that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Saritor 15:52, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.~ Will Durant (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 because nature and wisdom are truly at conflicting odds. Zarbon 05:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

And here let me emphasize the fact — and it cannot be repeated too often — that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. ~ Eugene V. Debs (born November 5, 1855)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself. ~ Eugene V. Debs
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I shall not waste any time on such miserable twaddle as to say that I ought to have been elected. … It is the undoubted right of the people to change their servants, and to remove one and displace him with another at any time they choose, for a good reason, for a bad reason, or for no reason at all. If we are to remain a free people, it is the duty of public servants not grumpily and sourly to accept the verdict of the majority, but joyously to accept that verdict. ~ Henry Fountain Ashurst (2008 U.S. Presidenial election on November 4 with polls in most states closing after 24:00 UTC meaning results will come on November 5)
 * 3 --Allen3 talk 23:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 05:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ~ Will Durant
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it. ~ Will Durant

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. ~ Will Durant
 * 2 Zarbon 03:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. ~ Bryan Adams * 3 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC) This is actually an author named Brian Adams from How to Succeed (1985)
 * 3 Zarbon 03:50, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

When the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone. ~ James Elroy Flecker
 * 2 Zarbon 03:50, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

So many gods, so many creeds; So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * 2 Zarbon 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * 3 Zarbon 04:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

''I find a rapture linked with each despair, Well worth the price of anguish. I detect More good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.'' ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * 3 Kalki 05:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 12:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:29, 31 October 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

title: November 5