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March 3

March 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ Alexander Graham Bell (born 3 March 1847)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ Georg Cantor (born 3 March 1845)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.  ~ Edmund Waller ~ (born 3 March 1606)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ~ William Godwin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. ~ William Godwin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today. Those woodland lakes in a thousand sitting-rooms with gold-tinted wallpaper belong to the profoundest inspirations of art. It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. ~ Asger Jorn
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. ~ William Godwin ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon, extended by Kalki<!-- The poet...who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world. ~ William Godwin

 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) but I would prefer to extend this much to include the full statement, with a strong lean toward 4:
 * Above all, the poet, whose judgment should be clear, whose feelings should be uniform and sound, whose sense should be alive to every impression and hardened to none, who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world, ought never to have been a practising lawyer, or ought speedily to have quitted so dangerous an engagement.
 * As of 2016, I now begin to suggest another related short option, from this assertion of Godwin, and even longer option:
 * It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient. The lawyer never yet existed who has not boldly urged an objection which he knew to be fallacious, or endeavoured to pass off a weak reason for a strong one.

OR:
 * It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient. The lawyer never yet existed who has not boldly urged an objection which he knew to be fallacious, or endeavoured to pass off a weak reason for a strong one. [… Intellect is the greatest and most sacred of all endowments; and no man ever trifled with it, defending an action to-day which he had arraigned yesterday, or extenuating an offence on one occasion, which, soon after, he painted in the most atrocious colours, with absolute impunity. …] … Above all, the poet, whose judgment should be clear, whose feelings should be uniform and sound, whose sense should be alive to every impression and hardened to none, who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world, ought never to have been a practising lawyer, or ought speedily to have quitted so dangerous an engagement.
 * I have a preference for the longest, for though the longer and longest options might be divided at the ellipsis into two separate presentations, the whole has a cohesion that might be best to present all at once, one day. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:18, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:02, 3 March 2023 (UTC) — for this longest option.
 * 2 for the shorter; 3 for the longer. The quote is curiously reminiscent of his son-in-law's remark about poets as the "unacknowledged legislators," etc. InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC) -->

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.. ~ Georg Cantor
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. ~ Georg Cantor
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.. ~ Georg Cantor
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a Muse. ~ Edmund Waller ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ~ Edmund Waller ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

''The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.'' ~ Edmund Waller ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. ~ Thomas Otway
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There’s in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. ~ Thomas Otway
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, "In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad?" would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

To say that the law of force is abandoned because force is regular, unopposed, and beneficially exercised, is to say that day and night are now such well-established institutions that the sun and moon are mere superfluities. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

What we have, and what constitutes our strength, is our joy in life, in all of its moral and amoral manifestations. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 and lean toward a 4. Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) In this form I rank it only a 2, although I would give what is perhaps another translation of this same statement (or at least a similar one), a 3 or even perhaps a 4:
 * What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life; our interest in life, in all its moral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

 * 3 for the first; 2 for the possible alternative translation. InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces. It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 4 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) but somewhat inclined toward a 3
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds, Sniff them and think and sniff again and try Once more to think what it is I am remembering, Always in vain. I cannot like the scent, Yet I would rather give up others more sweet, With no meaning, than this bitter one. ~ Edward Thomas
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero. ~ Edward Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. ~ William Godwin
 * 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again.., only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. There seems to be just as much magic thinking in modern thought as in older; only it takes place in other areas. ~ Asger Jorn
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action. ~ Émile Chartier
 * 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:34, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:34, 2 March 2015 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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April 3

April 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~ William Hazlitt
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. ~ Pope John Paul II (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. ~ Washington Irving (born 13 April 1783)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. ~ Washington Irving
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Stretch or contract me, Thy poor debtor; This is but tuning of my breast, To make the music better. Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust, Thy hands made both, and I am there; Thy power and love, my love and trust Make one place ev'rywhere. ~ George Herbert ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. ~ "Meggido Message" (misattributed to Edward Everett Hale)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. ~ Edward Everett Hale
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all. ~ Dora Russell
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ~ Boss Tweed
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki — but originally improperly selected as a quote of Jane Goodall, due to section with an interview with Frans de Waal, rather than Goodall, having been posted to her page.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ~ George Herbert (born April 3, 1593)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Man is no star, but a quick coal
 * Of mortal fire:

Who blows it not, nor doth control
 * A faint desire,

Lets his own ashes choke his soul.~ George Herbert
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

 * And now in age I bud again,

After so many deaths I live and write;
 * I once more smell the dew and rain,

And relish versing: O my only light,
 * It cannot be
 * That I am he
 * On whom thy tempests fell all night.~ George Herbert

 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. ~ George Herbert
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) (with a strong lean toward a 4, but might do more sourcing of variants of this, including the famous one of Franklin's today, or sometime soon...)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. ~ Washington Irving (born April 3, 1783)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies. ~ George Herbert
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. ~ George Herbert
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

One sword keeps another in the sheath. ~ George Herbert
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is true. Through the usage of one's own force and power, one keeps another from raising his sword. Very beautiful ideological perspective. Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

None knows the weight of another's burden. ~ George Herbert
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) — but this appears to be a saying Herbert collected in Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert (1651), rather than one which he created.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 because one understands one's own suffering better than all others. Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god. ~ Washington Irving
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. ~ Washington Irving
 * 3 Kalki 12:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day. ~ Edward Everett Hale
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. ~ Edward Everett Hale
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or even 4 but only for a more fully sourced version:
 * Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!

 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ~ Edward Everett Hale
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today. ~ Helmut Kohl
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

He who approves family, must also approve the woman. ~ Helmut Kohl
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating. ~ Boss Tweed
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The way to have power is to take it. ~ Boss Tweed
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way. ~ Marlon Brando
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. ~ Marlon Brando
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' ~ Marlon Brando
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ~ Marlon Brando
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war. ~ Dora Russell
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:42, 31 March 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~ Dora Russell
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 03:30, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

That I did not fail was due in part to patience... ~ Jane Goodall
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. ~ Jane Goodall
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. ~ Jane Goodall
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. ~ Jane Goodall
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn't learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. ~ Paul Craig Roberts
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ~ Doris Day
 * 3 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. ~ Doris Day
 * 2 Zarbon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC) This seems to be Day quoting a hymn.

You have to have the courage to stand up for what you believe in — no matter how hard it is — as your beliefs make you who you are amid all the celeb madness. ~ Leona Lewis (born 3 April 1983)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:13, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 Lisa (talk) 07:51, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

 * The Rose of the World hangs high on a thorny Tree. Whoso would gather must harrow his hands and feet. But oh! It is sweet. ~ Rachel Annand Taylor (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:17, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

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title: April 3


text:
May 3

May 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ~ William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli (born 3 May 1469)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ Pete Seeger (born 3 May 1919)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. ~ Pete Seeger
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose under heaven. ~ Pete Seeger ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? . . . Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~ Golda Meir (born 3 May 1898)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so. Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2020

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 13:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 4. – Illegitimate Barrister, 13:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:15, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:26, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 19:11, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:04, 3 May 2023 (UTC); in regard of his recent death.

title: May 3


text:
June 3

June 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ W. Clement Stone
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ Sydney Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. ~ Sydney Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by allixpeeke

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to this year's Eid al-Fitr.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recurring tragedies.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ~ Sydney Smith (born June 3)
 * 2 because he says it as it is. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 because I agree. Many people who are timid, don't make an effort...but the possibilities would be endless if they did. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 2 because this one is rather comical, although it holds some abundant truth to it. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The law should regulate in certain areas of culture — but it should regulate culture only where that regulation does good. Yet lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?" We should ask, "Why?" Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

''If you can't fight for your freedom. . . you don't deserve it'' … This is not a left and right issue. This is the important thing to recognize: This is not about conservatives versus liberals. … This is not about left and right. This is about right and wrong. That's what this battle is. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society. ~ Lawrence Lessig
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. ~ Sydney Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it! ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah

 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.

 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I've got five hundred acres of good, rich dirt, here, and as long as the rains come and the sun shines, it'll grow anything I have a mind to plant. 'And we pulled every stump, and we cleared every field, and we done it ourselves without the sweat of one slave''. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah

 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.

 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

That might me so, Johnson, but these are my sons! They don't belong to the state. When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around with a spare tit! We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own living and thanks to no man for the right. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah

 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.

 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

You run a sad kind of train, mister. It takes people away when they don't want to go, and won't bring them back when they're ready. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah

 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.

 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm not going to kill you. I want you to live. I want you to live to be an old man, and I want you to have many, many, many children, and I want you to feel about your children then the way I feel about mine now. And someday, when a man comes along and kills one of 'em, I want you to remember! Okay? I want you to remember. ~ Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah

 * Note: 3 June 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this film's release.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:47, 5 December 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ᘙ (talk) 13:20, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

title: June 3


text:
July 3

July 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * You don't understand. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. ~ Marlon Brando as "Terry Malloy" in On the Waterfront (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ Franz Kafka (born 3 July 1883)
 * proposed by User:Kalki

 * 2006
 * I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ Tom Stoppard (born 3 July 1937)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ Franz Kafka
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ Franz Kafka
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable — like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love — like there has never been in a play. ~ Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * You can only be young once but you can be immature forever. ~ Dave Barry
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Lyle for an anniversary of the film's release in 1985; used on the 30th anniversary.
 * 2016

 * Added to QOTD array in tribute to Wiesel, after his recent death.

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

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

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2026 : 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
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ~ The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:22, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (But italicize title.)
 * 2 A famous line, but still a relatively obscure and simply puzzling statement to many people. ~ Kalki
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. ~ Tom Stoppard (born July 3, 1937)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) ? I don't get it.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) I'm back to not getting it again.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

England is home to every shade of political exile. They don't give asylum out of respect for asylum-seekers, but out of respect for themselves. They invented personal liberty, and they know it, and they did it without having any theories about it. They value liberty because it's liberty. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God. ~ Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. ~ Tom Stoppard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC) This quote sounds like it's supposed to be important but I guess I just don't understand Tom Stoppard.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:30, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:30, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:34, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

title: July 3


text:
August 3

August 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ~ Khalil Gibran
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Perhaps there was no limit, there might, quite likely, be no such condition as the ultimate; there might be no time when any creature or any group of creatures could stop at any certain point and say, this is as far as we can go, there is no use of trying to go farther. For each new development produced, as side effects, so many other possibilities, so many other roads to travel, that with each step one took down any given road there were more paths to follow. There'd never be an end, he thought — no end to anything. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Much of what we see in the universe … starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by allixpeeke

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard to recent events.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone. ~ 3 August 1493 1492 diary entry by Christopher Columbus, starting his journey to what will become known as America.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 02:38, August 2, 2005 (UTC) (corrected year per WP)
 * 3 AllanHainey 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 07:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists... ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * 3 because the eternity of time stretches forever and the acceptance of the unknown is what makes it even more of a mystery. Zarbon 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 07:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (It may very well be much more than a concept, especially considering it can be manipulated by mass.)

There were certain basic things, perhaps — the very earth, itself — which existed through every point in time, holding a sort of limited eternity to provide a solid matrix. And the dead — the dead and fabricated — stayed in the past as ghosts. … They were bound in time and stretched through time and they were long, long shadows. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:49, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

You travel back along the line of time and you don't find the past, but another world, another bracket of consciousness. The earth would be the same, you see, or almost the same. Same trees, same rivers, same hills, but it wouldn't be the world we know. Because it has lived a different life, it has developed differently. The second back of us is not the second back of us at all, but another second, a totally separate sector of time. We live in the same second all the time. We move along within the bracket of that second, that tiny bit of time that has been allotted to our particular world. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:49, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ Clifford D. Simak
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * This was used on this date in 2005 ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:05, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 0 if it has already been used, 2 if not. allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Agreement in likes and dislikes—this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ~ Catiline
 * 3 (friendship day 2014) DanielTom (talk) 02:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 (August 3rd is Yazidi Genocide Remembrance Day.) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC); recent response to the recent indictment of Donald Trump.

 * If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
 * ~ Rupert Brooke (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
 * ~ Rupert Brooke (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

title: August 3


text:
September 3

September 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ Jim Hightower
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ Oliver Cromwell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett (born 3 September 1849)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. ~ Louis Sullivan (born 3 September 1856)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must come to those who nobly earn. Who hunts the hay-field over Will find the four-leaved clover. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The warm sun kissed the earth To consecrate thy birth, And from his close embrace Thy radiant face Sprang into sight, A blossoming delight. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Once you learn to read you will be forever free. ~ Frederick Douglass, who boarded a train that day on 1838 on his way to freedom.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki 22:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * 0 This has now already been used on 20 February 2007 Kalki * 3 Kalki 01:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone. ~ Oliver Cromwell (died 3 September 1658)
 * 3 Kalki 00:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

In the life of each of us … there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

"Dear robin," said this sad young flower, "Perhaps you'd not mind trying To find a nice white frill for me, Some day when you are flying?" ''"You silly thing!" the robin said; "I think you must be crazy! I'd rather be my honest self Than any made-up daisy.  "You're nicer in your own bright gown, The little children love you; Be the best buttercup you can, And think no flower above you.  "Though swallows leave me out of sight, We'd better keep our places; Perhaps the world would all go wrong With one too many daisies.  "Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing."'' ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

OR these stanzas separately:

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC); but with a lean toward 2, as I used this as part of another quote in 2023. — Kalki 2023·09·02

 * For us, the Battle of the Atlantic was becoming a private war. If you were in it, you knew all about it. You knew how to keep watch on filthy nights, and how to go without sleep; and how to bury the dead and how to die without wasting anyone's time.
 * The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
 * Rationale: anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:16, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

title: September 3


text:
October 3

October 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ~ The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot ~
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ~ John Perry Barlow (born 3 October 1947)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. ~ Gore Vidal (born 3 October 1925)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * I'm an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I'm not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ~ John Perry Barlow (born 3 October 1947)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~ Gore Vidal
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. ~ John Perry Barlow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. ~ John Perry Barlow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ~ Gore Vidal
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ~ Gore Vidal (born 3 October 1925)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that, promiscuously, it pulls up roses as well as crabgrass. ~ Gore Vidal
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive. ~ Neve Campbell
 * 2 Zarbon 03:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ~ Thomas Wolfe
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius — I know it too well to blush behind it. ~ Thomas Wolfe
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ~ Thomas Wolfe
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

And out of mind as soon as out of sight. ~ Fulke Greville
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found. Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight. ~ Fulke Greville
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

We that are bound by vows and by promotion, With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites, To teach belief in good and still devotion, To preach of heaven's wonders and delights— Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks, He finds the God there far unlike his books. ~ Fulke Greville
 * 3 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger. ~ Oliver Cowdery
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ~ Gore Vidal
 * 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent. ~ Gore Vidal
 * 3 Kalki 09:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:30, 2 October 2023 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * I first am nature's subject, then my prince's; I will not serve to innocency's ruine. Whose heaven is earth, let them beleeve in princes; My God is not the God of subtile murther. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
 * Ficaia (talk) 15:36, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

title: October 3


text:
November 3

November 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ~ Charlie Chaplin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. ~ Judy Garland as "Dorothy Gale" in The Wizard of Oz
 * proposed by MosheZadka (The Wizard of Oz was first shown on television 3 November 1956)

 * 2006
 * Art is a revolt against fate. ~ André Malraux (born 3 November 1901)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ~ Wilhelm Reich (died 3 November 1957)
 * proposed by Kalki (Reich died in prison on 3 November 1957)

 * 2008
 * Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ~ Wilhelm Reich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. ~ André Malraux
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness. ~ André Malraux (born November 3, 1901)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the official US opening date for Thor: Ragnarok

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of today's [2023·11·02] release of "the final Beatles song".

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate. ~ Ulysses S. Grant, became president that day.
 * 3 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians. ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)
 * 3 Kalki 18:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 17:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism. ~ André Malraux
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 but I would give it a 3 if it was trimmed to start from "Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism." Zarbon 17:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success. ~ Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
 * 3 Zarbon 05:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

The sin of thousands always goes unpunished. ~ Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
 * 3 Zarbon 05:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:38, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:38, 31 October 2012 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC) for this or perhaps a more extensive variant translation of it:
 * What is new in work democracy is: that for the first time in the history of sociology a possible future order of human society is deduced not from ideologies or from conditions yet to be created, but from processes which are naturally given and which have always been in operation. What is new in it is the renunciation and rejection of any kind of politics and demagogy. New is that, instead of the working masses of people being relieved of social responsibility, they are being burdened with it. Further, that the work democrats have no political ambitions nor are allowed to develop any. Further, that it consciously develops formal democracy — which means merely the voting for ideological representatives without any further responsibility on the part of the voter — into genuine, factual and practical democracy on an international scale; a democracy which is borne, in progressive organic development, by the functions of love, work and knowledge.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

title: November 3


text:
December 3

December 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ Mark Twain
 * selected by Basil Fawlty

 * 2004
 * The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ Emma Goldman
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent (born 3 December 1857)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009 :
 * He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Truth shall prevail — don't you know Magna est veritas . . . Yes, when it gets a chance. There is a law, no doubt — and likewise a law regulates your luck in the throwing of dice. It is not Justice — the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune — the ally of patient Time — that holds an even and scrupulous balance. ~ Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim
 * 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 bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
 * used 5 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 0, though very good, this one was already used in July 2004 ~ Kalki 00:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ~ Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.
 * 4. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. ~ Ozzy Osbourne
 * 2 Zarbon 04:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life! ~ Joseph Conrad
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 06:12, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. ~ Joseph Conrad
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The men who could understand his silence were gone — those men who knew how to exist beyond the pale of life and within sight of eternity. They had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent those men as whining over every mouthful of their food; as going about their work in fear of their lives. But in truth they had been men who knew toil, privation, violence, debauchery — but knew not fear, and had no desire of spite in their hearts. Men hard to manage, but easy to inspire; voiceless men — but men enough to scorn in their hearts the sentimental voices that bewailed the hardness of their fate. It was a fate unique and their own; the capacity to bear it appeared to them the privilege of the chosen! ~ Joseph Conrad in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. And thus, doubtful of strength to travel so far, we talk a little about the aim — the aim of art, which, like life itself, is inspiring, difficult — obscured by mists. It is not in the clear logic of a triumphant conclusion; it is not in the unveiling of one of those heartless secrets which are called the Laws of Nature. It is not less great, but only more difficult. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

To arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth, and compel men entranced by the sight of distant goals to glance for a moment at the surrounding vision of form and colour, of sunshine and shadows; to make them pause for a look, for a sigh, for a smile — such is the aim, difficult and evanescent, and reserved only for a very few to achieve. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished — behold! — all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile — and the return to an eternal rest. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Nobody ever comes back from a "missing" ship to tell how hard was the death of the craft, and how sudden and overwhelming the last anguish of her men. Nobody can say with what thoughts, with what regrets, with what words on their lips they died. But there is something fine in the sudden passing away of these hearts from the extremity of struggle and stress and tremendous uproar—from the vast, unrestful rage of the surface to the profound peace of the depths, sleeping untroubled since the beginning of ages. ~ Joseph Conrad
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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Elliott rock

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 19:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Elliott rock
Non-notable "[l]ocal philosophical guru" with no WP page or relevant Google hits. —LrdChaos 15:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 15:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 16:18, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - InvisibleSun 16:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Beaujolais Bulman

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 19:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Beaujolais Bulman
Non-notable person (no Google hits, no WP page) and no quotes on the page (though the page's creator added one quote, attributed to this person, to God). —LrdChaos 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. LrdChaos 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless notability is shown and quotes are added. ~ UDScott 15:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Likely prank page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - InvisibleSun 15:54, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Fast Lane

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 19:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Fast Lane
I'm not sure why such a page would be considered notable or necessary. What's next -- ATMs? EZ-Pass tollbooths? ~ UDScott 11:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; 1 Keep from minimally participating editor, 4 Keeps discounted for lack of any other WQ contributions). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 11:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. None of the quotes are memorable, and it's really a pointless page. —LrdChaos 12:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Actually, Fast Lane is about a toll booth, so I think it should get precedence over the WalMart checkout machine. "Please insert $1.00 toll", and all that. Seriously, I completely agree with UDScott and LrdChaos. None of these is a quote-worthy subject. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 *  Delete. A vanity page for a machine: I'm almost impressed. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. - InvisibleSun 15:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 *  Keep. An existentially humorous quotes page. The quotes of an item we encounter in everday life, but how many of us have stopped to consider it?Digital Subjunctive 05:02, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 *  Keep. I owe this machine my allegiance.  I refuse to have it torn from my bloody hands again.Beanland 04:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I am amazed that anybody would dare vote to delete such a page. Have none of you looked into the face of this great machine and pondered what it could possibly be going on in its mind?  These quotes are the only glimpse we get into its conscience, and you wish to do away with them.  "Pointless"?  Nay, my friend.  Profound.MrPoland 04:48, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is nothing in the current world more prominent than emerging technology such as this. These machines are fast becoming part of our everyday lives, and are more than noteworthy. I am anchored into the position of defending this article. This is now. This is life. John Pierce 10:57, 9 June 2006
 * Keep. I cannot believe that anywould would want to rid me of my whole connection to this "Wal-Mart" Khubal 5:17, 9 June 2006
 * Note: User:MrPoland and User:Khubal have each only made one edit, which was their vote here. User:John Pierce has made two edits, one to vote here and one to create a user page. Possible sockpuppetry, and even if it isn't, they are new users with no other contributions before or since. —LrdChaos 15:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Digital Subjunctive, too, has only edited to place a single vote here (once to vote, once to sign). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: There is no doubt in my mind that most of the quotes stated by this machine will light some inner feeling within most hearts.  Whether the saying "Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart" incites a feeling of hatred towards corporate greed, outsourcing and competition, or a sense of comfort, nostalgia, or convienience, it should not matter:  They are still recognizable by most of the world, and I believe have a part on this Wikiquote. Beanland 19:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 19:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Gwen from Tempe
Not notable. ~ UDScott 11:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 11:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability can be established. —LrdChaos 12:18, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No WP article, no Alexa rating for the cited website, 6 unique Google hits, all but one of which are from flickr.com (i.e., personal stuff). Clear vanity page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - InvisibleSun 15:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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