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February 2

February 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Anything different is good. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ~ Coretta Scott King (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Well, it's Groundhog Day... again... ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses (Joyce born 2 February 1882)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban (born 2 February 1915)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I'm not playing by their rules anymore! ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. ~ James Joyce
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile and cunning. ~ James Joyce
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his announcement of retirement from NFL football.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce
 * used 16 June 2009, proposed by Kalki

 * used 16 June 2011, proposed by

Suggestions
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. ~ Harold Rosenberg (born February 2, 1906)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. ~ Harold Rosenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. ~ Harold Rosenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker 01:54, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. ~ Jane Wagner (born 2 February 1935)
 * This has now been used, for Quote of the day/September 1, 2014 3 Kalki 09:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3.5 Just A Regular New Yorker 01:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. ~ Ayn Rand (born 2 February 1905)

 * 1 Kalki 18:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 though I like the concept attributed to the "gun". - Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict — and they call it growth. At the end there’s nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 This is way too long but I would give this a 2 if it were shortened to the last phrase "Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." - Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You're not a god. You can take my word for it — this is 12 years of Catholic school talking. ~ Andie MacDowell as "Rita" in Groundhog Day
 * 3 Kalki 23:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC) * 4 Kalki 23:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 bystander 22:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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March 2

March 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ Dr. Seuss (born 2 March 1904)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." ~ Carl Schurz (born 2 March 1829)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. ~ Russ Feingold (born 2 March 1953)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends! … So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known. ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. ~ Paul Harvey
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local. ~ Murray Rothbard (born 2 March 1926)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on responses to the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss (attributed)
 * used 23 February 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Don’t give up! I believe in you all A person’s a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * used 13 March 2008, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
''I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.'' ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

We have come to the point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. ~ Carl Schurz
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions. ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

If the history of wartime politics teaches us anything, it is that measures that seem just, or at least permissible, in a time of conflict, can have damaging and lasting repercussions. ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Dangers await only those who do not react to life. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same. ~ Jackson C. Frank
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you. ~ John Irving, The World According to Garp (1978) (born 1942 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ~ John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) (born 1942 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. ~ Peter Straub, Shadowland (1980) (born 1943 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Though Straub may have used this somewhere, it is actually a statement of Jesus Christ, as quoted in the Gospel of Thomas, saying 70. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. ~ Murray Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (1995)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

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April 2

April 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. ~ Robert Frost
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ Marvin Gaye (born 2 April 1939)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ Giacomo Casanova (born 2 April 1725)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. ~ Kenneth Tynan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also, That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession, We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times, We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. ~ Walt Whitman in "To Him Who Was Crucified" in Leaves of Grass (for Good Friday 2010, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calculations)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, for the Good Friday on this date in 2010, and used for the Good Friday of 2021.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. ~ Joan Vinge (born April 2)
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 06:31, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: "What's Your Mood?: A Good Day, Bad Day, In-between Day Book" - by Kimberly Potts - Psychology - 2005
 * 1 Kalki 02:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Indifference is not a force at all — it is the base out of which Life and all Love and Hate emerge, and with Love ultimately the victor in all that endures with Life. ~ Kalki 02:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. ~ Camille Paglia
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 06:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC) I might rank this a 2 or more with some context, but it doesn't seem to have much of a point as it stands.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:32, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 Lisa (talk) 07:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 2 April 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 3 — but I cannot yet find a citation of the original source of this, and the earliest attribution to Zola I have yet located dates to a snippet in Kenya Education Journal Vol. 1 (1958).

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May 2

May 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ Novalis (born 2 May 1772)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Love works magic. It is the final purpose Of the world story, The Amen of the universe. ~ Novalis ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ Novalis
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born 2 May 1859)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. ~ Novalis
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations. ~ Novalis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world… ~ Novalis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013 :

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki — a passage from the King James Version of the Christian Bible, the 2nd of May being selected by the 400th anniversary committee as the official anniversary day of celebration in 2011, though the exact date of publication in 1611 is unknown.

2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
 * 3 because all children need some form of guidance. Tarzan and Mowgli have nice stories but they aren't the best characteristic transformations to be had. Zarbon 15:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 12:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born May 2, 1859)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:07, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 1 May 2024 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

title: May 2


text:
June 2

June 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ Cheryl James ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa")
 * proposed by IP 66.157.59.118

 * 2005
 * I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ W. Mark Felt (recent revelation of identity)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ Thomas Hardy (born 2 June 1840)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. ~ Thomas Hardy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. ~ Cornel West
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The Poet's License! — 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty.  To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, — And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest. ~ John Godfrey Saxe ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.  So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. ~ Thomas Hardy ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!  ~ John Godfrey Saxe ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki — a quote of the first introduction of the Wonder Woman character, in regard to the first Wonder Woman feature film, opening in the US on this date.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. ~ Billy Joel

 * 2 Kalki 20:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Good quote but no clear relation to the date; the one by Martha Washington (upon a similar theme) that I've added below is related to her birthday today.
 * 1 Zarbon 13:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. ~ Thomas Hardy Such a perfect, delicate, and necessary finish did the figure give to the dark pile of hills that it seemed to be the only obvious justification of their outline. Without it, there was the dome without the lantern; with it the architectural demands of the mass were satisfied. The scene was strangely homogeneous, in that the vale, the upland, the barrow, and the figure above it amounted only to unity. Looking at this or that member of the group was not observing a complete thing, but a fraction of a thing.
 * 3 Kalki 20:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC); but would now (2023·06·01) extend this for context to read:
 * Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe.

 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

They don't pay me to think, they pay me to be an Admiral. ~ Archibald Berkeley Milne
 * 3 Zarbon 06:22, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. This is an unsourced quote. InvisibleSun 22:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Now at last, Patterson was ready to tackle the iron meteorite, to find the true age of the Earth. [He discovered that the] world is four and a half billion years old. . . . His reward for this discovery? A world of trouble. ~ In commemoration of the June 2, 1922 birth of Clair Cameron Patterson, from the seventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:09, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

No matter where he searched on Earth, no matter how far he traveled back in time, the. . . naturally occurring [lead] levels in the air and water in the past were far lower. . . . Patterson fought the industry for [more than] 20 years before lead was finally banned in US [gasoline and other] consumer products.~ In commemoration of the June 2, 1922 birth of Clair Cameron Patterson, from the seventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:14, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

title: June 2


text:
July 2

July 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * With great power comes great responsibility. ~ Stan Lee
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. ~ Hermann Hesse (born 2 July 1877)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There's no life that couldn't be immortal if only for a moment. Death always arrives by that very moment too late.  In vain it tugs at the knob of the invisible door. As far as you've come can't be undone.  ~ Wisława Szymborska ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 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
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. ~ Ernest Hemingway, born that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
 * This quote has already been used as a quote of the day, in January 2005. Also, Hemingway's birthday is actually the 21st of July; he died on the 2nd.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

And only we few who remain unstripped of fur, untorn from bone, unplucked of soaring feathers, esteemed in all our quills, scales, tusks, and horns, and in whatever else that ingenious protein has seen fit to clothe us with, we, my lord, are your dream, which finds you innocent for now. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan. I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. I'll have to pay for myself with my self, give up my life for my life. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Anything in overdose will destroy your liver. I mean, look at cigarettes and look at liquor. Cigarettes says on the packet, this will kill you; it will cause cancer; and you're still smoking it. ~ José Canseco
 * 2 for humorous intent by Canseco. Zarbon 14:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. ~ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
 * 3 Zarbon 14:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell, Within us and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell:— Without, the somber Real, Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * 3 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Not what we would, but what we must Makes up the sum of living; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and in giving. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * 3 Kalki 21:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 00:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

''I'm sorry that my voice was hard. Look down on yourselves from the stars, I cried, look down on yourselves from the stars.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Whatever we might think of this measureless theater to which we've got reserved tickets, but tickets whose lifespan is laughably short, bounded as it is by two arbitrary dates; whatever else we might think of this world — it is astonishing. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

After every war someone has to tidy up. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

''Those who knew what this was all about must make way for those who know little. And less than that. And at last nothing less than nothing.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

''We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all of the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. With the exception of one small thing, one tiny little thing, they lacked nothing that the sage and thinker had, and that was the consciousness of the unity of all life. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

It matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

title: July 2


text:
August 2

August 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. ~ "Serendipity" in Dogma, by Kevin Smith
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. ~ James Baldwin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. ~ John Tyndall
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ~ James Baldwin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ John Tyndall
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; historical remarks on a major historical indictment.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is no toy called easy joy.
 * 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ~ James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ~ James Baldwin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 14:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. ~ Ken MacLeod
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

It's no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ~ James Baldwin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble. ~ James Baldwin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. ~ John Tyndall
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 11:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. ~ Hannibal, quoted in relation to the anniversary of the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:11, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 20:25, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 20:41, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

title: August 2


text:
September 2

September 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Ars longa, vita brevis. (Art is long, life is short.) ~ Horace
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
 * proposed by MosheZadka: First public use of the phrase by Roosevelt in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair (2 September 1901)

 * 2006
 * Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ Salma Hayek (born 2 September 1966)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget (born 2 September 1852)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ Hiram Johnson (born 2 September 1866)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~ Henry George (born 2 September 1839)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. ~ Henry George
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. ~ Henry George
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2019

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Vietnam is a country, not a war ~ Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
 * 3 - for Vietnamese National Day. LordAmeth 18:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire... We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. ~ Samuel Pepys (diary entry, September 2, 1666, the first day of the Great Fire of London)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC) 2 as it stands, but I would rank it a 3 if it were trimmed to the most essential line: "We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it."
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The forests have taught man liberty. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

There is no such thing as an age for love … because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

its in rooms like this one with no windows... that we prepare our gestures so that we may best present them frightened in the face of death. -Clarice Starling "Silence of the Lambs"

 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC) no clear relation to the date.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime. ~ Frederick Soddy
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Some of the beliefs and legends bequeathed to us by Antiquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and whether the similarity between them may not point to the existence of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. ~ Frederick Soddy
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

title: September 2


text:
October 2

October 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ~ Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone
 * proposed by Kalki The first episode of The Twilight Zone, "Where is Everybody?" aired on 2 October 1959.

''A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.'' ~ Wallace Stevens ~
 * 2006
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the room and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost  Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly. ~ Wallace Stevens ~ (born 2 October 1879)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I am one of you and being one of you Is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, you see the earth again, Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings, Like watery words awash; like meanings said By repetitions of half-meanings. ~ Wallace Stevens ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born 2 October 1851)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (born 2 October 1869)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We do not choose our concerns. ~ Graham Greene (born 2 October 1904)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)
 * 3 because only those who are inexperienced in the art of war would boast about it. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)
 * 3 because the man who has the will will find the way. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

You can’t conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Graham Greene
 * 2 Zarbon 17:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Catholics and communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate...if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but perhaps trimmed a bit to just:
 * If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — it's built into all poor-quality goods. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians — it's an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed — that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. ~ Graham Greene
 * 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The imagination is one of the forces of nature. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 14:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite. ~ Wallace Stevens
 * 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 09:32, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

title: October 2


text:
November 2

November 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~ Kin Hubbard
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ Marie Antoinette (born 2 November 1755)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. ~ Marie Antoinette
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. ~ James K. Polk (born 2 November 1795)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew. ~ Studs Terkel (recent death)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree. ~ Joshua A. Norton (US Election Day 2010)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 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 — in regard to Grellet's date of birth, and All Soul's Day.

 * 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
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. ~ Arthur Balfour, in a letter sent that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:18, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 17:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I put on my rouge and wash my hands in front of the whole world! ~ Marie Antoinette (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 17:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great. ~ James K. Polk
 * 3 because if you want something done, it's best to do it yourself. Zarbon 04:04, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ~ Marie Antoinette (born November 2)
 * 3 because this is a brilliant quote. To die quickly and save oneself the trouble of suffering. Damn brilliant. Zarbon 01:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Stephen Grellet
 * 3 Zarbon 03:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This was already used on 29 January 2004 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights! ~ Warren G. Harding
 * 3 Zarbon 03:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 2 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Zarbon 04:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

No general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form. ~ George Boole
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

We don't just march on the future, we charge it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

The gods’ most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 04:35, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

title: November 2


text:
December 2

December 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ~ Helen Keller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (died 2 December 2002)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ Ivan Illich (date of death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. ~ Benazir Bhutto (became first female Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (date of death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ Ivan Illich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is not enough to have a beautiful voice. What does that mean? When you interpret a role, you have to have a thousand colors to portray happiness, joy, sorrow, fear. How can you do this with only a beautiful voice? Even if you sing harshly sometimes, as I have frequently done, it is a necessity of expression. You have to do it, even if people will not understand. But in the long run they will, because you must persuade them of what you're doing. ~ Maria Callas
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. ~ Ivan Illich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

After the use of this, the author's page was amended to read: I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are. In essence we're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend", and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

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

 * 2019
 * proposed by JessRek6

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022
 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second. ~ Marquis de Sade (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

There is no point in hiding that before the war we mostly learned to attack, and did not pay enough attention to such an important manoeuvre as retreat. Now we have paid for this. It turned out that the commanders and the staff were not sufficiently prepared to prepare and execute the retreat manoeuvre. Now, in the second week of war, we had in fact to learn from the beginning the most difficult art - the art of the execution of retreat. ~ Hovhannes Bagramyan (born December 2)
 * 3 because the art of retreat is important, whether it be for a military tactician or merely someone who needs to escape from a dangerous situation. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The System of the International Organizations of the Communist Countries - Page 36 by Richard Szawlowski - Law - 1976
 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Eastern Prussia (Germany) was a battlefield during World War I years. And right from here, on September 1, 1939, began the spark of fire for the coming of the second world war. And in 1941, Eastern Prussia invaded Soviet soil with a powerful military onslaught, unleashing a grip of heavy burden, tragedy, and torture into the Soviet pre-Baltic and also the inhabitants of Leningrad, Pskov, and the Novgorod regions. Right from the very first days of the second world war, Eastern Prussia was completely transformed into a diabolic system of concentration camp strongholds for captured military people, and became a cruel prison for the young and females, who were brought from many European countries. In the first place, from the Soviet Union. And, aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse! ~ Hovhannes Bagramyan (born December 2)
 * 4 because it states what happened, when Bagramyan's forces entered the Berlin bunker, because I like the ending of this description heavily. Especially the bit "And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" The comparison of the high ranking Germans to royal hounds is very powerful and just as the German shepherd was slain, so was its master. And in its very own doghouse no less. A magnificent and enthralling quote, but it might be best if trimmed, a matter of personal preference to just "And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" but still great either way. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal - Yerevan - 1987
 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. ~ Britney Spears
 * 2 Zarbon 03:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC), but perhaps a 3 if extended to:
 * Everyone now, they look back and they're like, "What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?" And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please...

 * 0 Ningauble 17:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC) (unremarkably unoriginal)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. ~ Maria Callas
 * 2 Kalki 00:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules. ~ Maria Callas
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:21, 5 May 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

title: December 2


text:
January 3

January 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee… ~ John Donne
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? ~ Cicero (born 3 January 106 BC)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * Each comprehended only that part of the mind of Ilúvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion (Tolkien born 3 January 1892)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. ~ "Gandalf" in The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
 * proposed by Gandalf

 * 2009
 * This is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. ~ Gandalf in The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I will sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive. ~ Cicero
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Return of the King
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
DOB: Cicero · Douglas William Jerrold · J. R. R. Tolkien

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~ Cicero (born January 3)
 * 3 Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Cicero (born January 3)
 * 3 because without knowledge, we have emptiness. Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC) I can agree that books are desirable, but not that all rooms require them.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. ~ Gordon Moore
 * 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 perhaps better for the end of the year? Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
 * 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now? ~ Jack Levine
 * 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Lúthien stood upon the bridge, and declared her power: and the spell was loosed that bound stone to stone, and the gates were thrown down, and the walls opened, and the pits laid bare. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion
 * 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~ Cicero
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

The gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. ~ Cicero
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him! ~ Cicero
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

title: January 3


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February 3

February 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ~ Buckminster Fuller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ H. G. Wells
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A. Michener (born c. 3 February 1907)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being. ~ Simone Weil (born 3 February 1909)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * When war is waged it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it. ~ Simone Weil
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just … I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand. ~ Gertrude Stein (Date of birth)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice. ~ Simone Weil
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at. ~ Simone Weil
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I went down to the sacred store Where I'd heard the music years before But the man there said the music wouldn't play And in the streets the children screamed The lovers cried and the poets dreamed But not a word was spoken The church bells all were broken And the three men I admire most The Father, Son and Holy Ghost They caught the last train for the coast The Day the Music Died. ~ Don McLean ~
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everything that you have written. After the audience begins, naturally they create something that is they create you, and so not everything is so important, something is more important than another thing. ~ Gertrude Stein (born February 3, 1874)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised. ~ Gertrude Stein
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America. ~ Gertrude Stein
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything. ~ Gertrude Stein
 * 4 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact. ~ Gertrude Stein
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. ~ Gertrude Stein
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good. ~ Simone Weil
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power. ~ Simone Weil
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves. ~ Simone Weil
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (born 3 February 1830)
 * 3 Kalki 22:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4 (but I think this might have been used…)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

On general grounds I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence. ~ Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (born 3 February 1830)
 * 3 Kalki 22:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better. ~ Walter Bagehot (born 3 February 1826)
 * 3 Kalki 22:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~ Walter Bagehot (born 3 February 1826)
 * 3 Kalki 22:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4, despite its length.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)with a very strong lean torward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

title: February 3