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June 11

June 11 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. ~ Ronald Reagan (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~ William Styron (born 11 June 1925)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. ~ Ben Jonson (born 11 June 1572)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another. ~ John Constable
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson (born 11 June 1572)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ~ John Constable
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. ~ Ben Jonson ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying — or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity — but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. ~ William Styron
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on notable historical events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. ~ Ben Jonson ~ (born June 11, 1572)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

No one will ever understand Auschwitz. ~ William Styron
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. ~ William Styron
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

''Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!'' ~ Ben Jonson ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it. ~ Ben Jonson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

A good life is a main argument. ~ Ben Jonson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

title: June 11


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June 12

June 12 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me! ~ Anne Frank (born 12 June 1929)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo (born 12 June 1659)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. ~ Anne Frank
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart. ~ Djuna Barnes
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in. ~ Otto Skorzeny (born 12 June 1908)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Everyone's got the same insecurities as you Believe me it is true Do not be afraid To show people the real you. ~ Justin Heazlewood
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. ~ Djuna Barnes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by JessRek6

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Give me a dozen men who are not afraid to die, and I'll accomplish what all the Generals and Admirals with all their Armies and Battleships cannot. ~ Otto Skorzeny (born June 12)
 * 3 because this redefines courage and seriously outlines the great secret missions that he undertook. Zarbon 04:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well. ~ Len Wein
 * 2 Zarbon 17:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. ~ George H. W. Bush
 * 2 Zarbon 17:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:24, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. ~ Charles Kingsley (birthday)
 * Ficaia (talk) 05:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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June 13

June 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ William Butler Yeats (born 13 June 1865)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~ Miyamoto Musashi (died 13 June 1645)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with the golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ William Butler Yeats ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. ~ William Butler Yeats
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather; For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world. ~ William Butler Yeats ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest. ~ William Butler Yeats ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; She can, though every face should scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still. ~ William Butler Yeats ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2019

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We’re going to make sure that everybody knows Exxon’s profits. Why don’t you tell them what Exxon’s profits were this year — this quarter? Exxon made more money than God this year. And, by the way, nothing has changed.
 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 23:44, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Books … are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
 * 3 Ningauble 17:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

It’s time for us to wake up and face the truth, that we are a captive species on a prison planet, but the fact that we are so close to understanding the science of our imprisonment means that we are also just beginning to touch the key that locks the door, and if we are strong, if we defy and defeat the sinister forces that rule us now, we have a chance at last to unlock this place and do what we are able to do, that we are richly capable of doing, that those who love us—and they are out there, too—have hoped and sought that we should do from time immemorial. Whitley Strieber (date of birth)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:18, 11 June 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet. ~ Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) a writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), in an interview with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. — "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe … and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer 27 (6). November–December 2003.
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:05, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Michael Faraday's fellow scientists. . . needed to see his ideas expressed in the language of modern physics - precise equations. [Then] James Clerk Maxwell. . . translated Faraday's experimental observations on electromagnetic fields into equations [and helped transform] human civilization from a patchwork of cities, towns and villages into an intercommunicating organism linking us at light speed to each other and to the cosmos. ~ In commemoration of the 13 June 1831 birth of James Clerk Maxwell, from the tenth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:33, 12 October 2016 (UTC) There are three reasons this simple quote should be displayed as the Wikiquote quote of the day: (1) It describes in a very succinct way how these two geniuses helped form the modern world by making telecommunications, computer networks and electrical equipment possible, (2) It highlights how important mathematics is to both science and to the functioning of today's worldwide society, and (3) Its voice is in the form of narrative third person, so it does a better job of expressing the relationship between Faraday and Maxwell than any single quote by either of them is likely to do.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 12 June 2017 (UTC) in the present form, but perhaps a 2 or even a 3 in a different [less clearly adapted and paraphrased] form; I am not sure of that, but it is usually a strong preference with me to use the actual original words and not paraphrased adaptations.

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/science-as-a-candle-in-the-darkness/ Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness.] ~ Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) a writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), and a creator, writer, director and executive producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 2 Pithy Francoln (talk) 04:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC) Combatting evolution denial is a worthy subject for a quote of the day, but unfortunately this quote is from a video clip which is basically a commercial for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. I'd be happy to see it on the Wikiquote main page, but I felt I needed to disclaim that it is essentially from promotional material.

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June 14

June 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. ~ Che Guevara (14 June 1928 is his official date of birth, though it is disputed)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe (born 14 June 1811)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary. ~ Yasunari Kawabata (born 14 June 1899)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless. … The disciple must, however, always be lord of his own thoughts, and must attain enlightenment through his own efforts. And the emphasis is less upon reason and argument than upon intuition, immediate feeling. Enlightenment comes not from teaching but through the eye awakened inwardly. Truth is in "the discarding of words", it lies "outside words". ~ Yasunari Kawabata ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. ~ Harry Turtledove
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values. ~ Che Guevara
 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning! ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * 3 Kalki 01:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

In our zeal as revolutionists we try to move ahead as fast as possible, clearing the way, but knowing we must draw our sustenance from the mass and that it can advance more rapidly only if we inspire it by our example. ~ Che Guevara
 * 3 Kalki 01:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * A footnote on the Wikipedia page for Che Guevara states: "Guevara's birth certificate was incorrectly and purposely dated one month later: June 14, 1928. Che's mother was three months pregnant when she married his father. To avoid possible scandal, she had a Rosario doctor forge the birth certificate to say that Che was born on June 14, instead of May 14, and then told her family he was born 2 months premature (Anderson 1997, p. 3)." As the WP and WQ pages now have a DOB of May 14, perhaps his QotD nominations should be moved to that day. - InvisibleSun 21:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Many things are possible. Few things are certain. ~ Harry Turtledove
 * 2 Zarbon 15:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The earth is alive. If it was not, it could not produce: If you find a piece of earth that is dead, you cannot produce anything from it, except you resurrect it and restore it to life. ~ Heber C. Kimball
 * 2 Zarbon 15:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

How ever alienated one may be from the world, suicide is not a form of enlightenment. However admirable he may be, the man who commits suicide is far from the realm of the saint. ~ Yasunari Kawabata
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Grab them by the pussy! ~ Donald Trump
 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 00:08, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her. ~ Donald Trump
 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 00:08, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. ~ Donald Trump
 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 00:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

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June 15

June 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ William McFee (born 15 June 1881)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~ William McFee (born 15 June 1881)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * All that you know is at an end. ~ The "Silver Surfer" in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. ~ Mario Cuomo
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ William McFee (born 15 June 1881)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul. ~ William McFee
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the crudest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. ~ Erik Erikson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta

 * 2016
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, for Coumo's birthdate — but also selected in regard to Eid al-Fitr of this year.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; date of birth of Lisa del Giocondo, the woman of which "Mona Lisa" is a portrait.

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * posting by Ficaia

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. ~ Mario Cuomo
 * 3 because actions speak louder than words. Zarbon 02:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:33, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down. ~ Morris Udall
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 02:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:33, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Everything has been said but not everyone has said it. ~ Morris Udall
 * 2 Zarbon 02:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:33, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 0. This quote is unsourced. When I tried to source it, I came up with several variants and several people to whom it was attributed. Perhaps it would be better, then, to pass on this one for now. - InvisibleSun 22:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Udall, as quoted by Harry Reid, in remarks in the US Senate (14 June 2001), published in the Congressional Record, Vol. 147, No. 83; I don’t know of any definite attributions other than Udall. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:16, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on. ~ William McFee
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:03, 11 June 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

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June 16

June 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ Geronimo (born 16 June 1829)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, 16 June 1858)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses

 * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday

 * 2008
 * When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
 * proposed by Zarbon

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

 * 2010
 * It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * selected by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki, as the date of Lincoln's delivery of this "House Divided" speech, in 1858.

 * 2021

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD, or from Ulysses by James Joyce (Bloomsday):

 * Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * used 17 June 2004, selected by Kalki

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

Suggestions
Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)

Murray Leinster (16 June 1896 – 8 June 1975)

Joyce Carol Oates (born 16 June 1938)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 What is this quote referring to? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

 * He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. ~ John Cleveland (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC) We could also run the slightly modernised text quoted in The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (1897), p. 10:He, who to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.

title: June 16


text:
June 17

June 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * selected by Kalki (selected on the 100th "anniversary" of Bloomsday, but a day late to mark the "centennial" celebrations themselves...)

 * 2005
 * I observed, "Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment." It is not only "the first and great" command, but all the commandments in one. "Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," they are all comprised in this one word, love. ~ John Wesley (born 17 June 1703 — but this was in Old Style reckonings, actually 28 June by the modern Gregorian calendar)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Some would say that it is too idealistic to believe in a society based on tolerance and the sanctity of human life, where borders, nationalities and ideologies are of marginal importance. To those I say, this is not idealism, but rather realism, because history has taught us that war rarely resolves our differences. Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei (born 17 June 1942)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone (born 17 June 1945)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. We seem to agree today that we can share modern technology, but we still refuse to acknowledge that our values — at their very core — are shared values. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. ~ M. C. Escher
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power... Green Lantern's light! ~ Green Lantern ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012 :

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Liquidice5

 * 2015

 * proposed by allixpeeke

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the Father's Day holiday (in the US).

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by allixpeeke<!-- Politicians always justify the human tragedies [of war] as being necessary for the greater good. They speak movingly of giving one's life for one's country.  But it's always someone else's life they're talking about.

…

The politicians' stirring phrases are meant to keep our eyes averted from the reality of war—to make us imagine heroic young men marching in parades, winning glorious battles, and bringing peace and democracy to the world.

But war is something quite different from that.

It is your children or your grandchildren dying before they're even fully adults, or being maimed or mentally scarred for life. It is your brothers and sisters being taught to kill other people—and to hate people who are just like themselves and who don't want to kill anyone either. It is your children seeing their buddies' limbs blown off their bodies.

It is hundreds of thousands of human beings dying years before their time. It is millions of people separated forever from the ones they love.

It is the destruction of homes for which people worked for decades. It is the end of careers that meant as much to others as your career means to you.

It is the imposition of heavy taxes on you and on other Americans and on people in other countries—taxes that remain long after the war is over. It is the suppression of free speech and the jailing of people who criticize the government.

It is the imposition of slavery by forcing young men to serve in the military.

It is goading the public to hate foreign people and races—whether Arabs of Japanese or Cubans or Serbs. It is numbing our sensibilities to cruelties inﬂicted on foreigners.

It is cheering at the news of enemy pilots killed in their planes, of young men blown to bits while trapped inside tanks, of sailors drowned at sea.

Other tragedies inevitably trail in the wake of war. Politicians lie even more than usual. Secrecy and cover-ups become the rule rather than the exception. The press becomes even less reliable.

War is genocide, torture, cruelty, propaganda, and slavery.

War is the worst cruelty government can inﬂict upon its subjects. It makes every other political crime—corruption, bribery, favoritism, vote-buying, graft, dishonesty—seem petty. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from pages 140 and 144 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:35, 16 June 2020 (UTC) 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC) but a bit long. but trimmed to the contiguous statement without a bracketed portion. -->

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent historical remarks on major historical events

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! ~ Martin Bormann (born June 17)
 * 4 because death is never an end, and life will always continue in memories. Zarbon 04:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. ~ Heinz Guderian (born June 17)
 * 3 because this is a good comparison between tank attacks and actual fighting. Zarbon 06:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person's problem, force can be justified to solve anyone's problem. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 18 of Why Government Doesn't Work. The entire sentence is italicised in the original source.

 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

They seem to think the government that can't stop violence in American cities can somehow bring peace to the rest of the world. But one can support the newest foreign military adventures only by ignoring the wreckage left by all the previous military adventures. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 26 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else. The government you want to suppress your enemies can be used as easily by your enemies to attack you. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 27 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC) though this is derived from earlier statements of others.

A government that tries to help those who can't help themselves will turn into a government that helps those with the most political power. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 32 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

A government we try to use as our servant inevitably will become our master. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 32 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

[A] government formed to do for the people what they can't do so well for themselves will instead do to people what they don't want done. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 32 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society. ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.
 * This quote is from page 35 of Why Government Doesn't Work.

 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk." ~ Harry Browne

 * Note: Browne's birthday was 17 June.

 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 20:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:43, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 01:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC) I was deliberating adding this one but didn't as it might lack context, but it's one of my favorite quips by him.
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 12:45, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

title: June 17


text:
June 18

June 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four? ~ Paul McCartney, "When I'm Sixty-Four" (McCartney turned 64 on 18 June 2006)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The day after Columbine, I was interviewed... The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that... The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song … The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous..." ~ Roger Ebert
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, on the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care. ~ Roger Ebert
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * proposed by Kalki, on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)

 * 2012 :

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money. The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change. ~ Joe Biden
 * suggested by Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 22:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it. ~ Roger Ebert's famous review of the 1994 Rob Reiner comedy North

 * 3 Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 22:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Good quote, but I would prefer to use one of his more profound statements about life issues in general.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. ~ Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis
 * 3 Zarbon 03:13, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:23, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind. It was wanting something more, something tangible. It sought for reality intensely, always as if it were not there... But you see at once what I do. I climb. ~ John Menlowe Edwards, British rock climber (18 June 1910)

 * 2 Kalki 11:11, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:53, 17 June 2024 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

title: June 18


text:
June 19

June 19 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ Kelly Ripa
 * suggested by IP 66.157.63.6

 * 2005
 * True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. … How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? ~ Pauline Kael
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The wellspring of courage and endurance in the face of unbridled power is generally a firm belief in the sanctity of ethical principles combined with a historical sense that despite all setbacks the condition of man is set on an ultimate course for both spiritual and material advancement. At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. ~ Salman Rushdie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

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

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the first "Juneteenth" celebrated as a US federal holiday.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I loved writing about things when I was excited about them... It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different. ~ Pauline Kael
 * 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The recurrence of certain themes in movies suggests that each generation wants romance restated in slightly new terms, and of course it’s one of the pleasures of movies as a popular art that they can answer this need. ~ Pauline Kael
 * 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable ~ Pauline Kael
 * 2 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because beauty is found only in the original product. Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
 * 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. ~ Charles Spurgeon
 * 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

title: June 19


text:
June 20

June 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it... ~ Blaise Pascal
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ Lillian Hellman (born 20 June 1905)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world. ~ Brian Wilson (born 20 June 1942)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. ~ Brian Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ~ Lillian Hellman
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Humor — it helps to make the vibe better — it loosens up the vibrations. ~ Brian Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes were green. He had the nerve and he had the blood And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud. ~ Jimmy Driftwood
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Ole Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise, If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes. We held our fire 'til we seed their faces well, Then we opened up our squirrel guns an' really gave 'em ...well! Yeah, they ran through the briars an' they ran through the brambles An' they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. ~ John Carmack, in celebration of the two year anniversary of the expiry of the infamous U.S. Patent 4,558,302 pertaining to GIF generation.
 * 3 MosheZadka 00:03, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 2.
 * 1 although I highly respect Carmack's prior game work heavily, groundbreaking to say the least, this quote isn't a very memorable one. Zarbon 04:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. ~ Lillian Hellman
 * 3 because loneliness is sometimes contageous. Zarbon 05:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
 * 3 Zarbon 03:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
 * 3 Zarbon 03:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage. ~ Samson Raphael Hirsch
 * 3 because a love marriage is only as good as the extent to which it lasts. It's much more important that the couple love each other after marriage than before marriage. This has nice meaning to it. Zarbon 03:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I like my whisky old and my women young. ~ Errol Flynn
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 03:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

So when unseen destruction lurks, Which men like mice may share, May some kind angel clear thy path, And break the hidden snare. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.'' ~ Lionel Richie ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Your eyes, your eyes They tell me how much you care Ooh yes, you will always be My endless love. ~ Lionel Richie ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

''And love and, love I'll be a fool For you, I'm sure. You know I don't mind...'' ~ Lionel Richie ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

You mean the world to me Oh I know I've found in you My endless love. ~ Lionel Richie ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Along about eighteen and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud. ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * I found that girl with the golden hair And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare. ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide. ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I love the girl with golden hair And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare. ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

''In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon an' we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British at the town of New Orleans. We fired our guns an' the British kept a'comin'. There wasn't nigh as many as there was awhile ago. We fired once more an' they begin to runnin' Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.'' ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~ (born 20 June 1907)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

''We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down, So we grabbed an alligator an' we fought another round. We filled his head with cannon balls an' powdered his behind, An' when they touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.'' ~ Jimmy Driftwood ~ (born 20 June 1907)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:04, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:47, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:29, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:29, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

 * June with her glancing grasses, June with a smiling sky, June, brown as the country lasses  Or wings of the dragon-fly!The mown hay lies like sedges  Or weed of the seashore strewn; Abrim with corn to the hedges  The fields are filled in June. ~ Walter Headlam (deathday and theme of the month)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 18:56, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

title: June 20


text:
June 21

June 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Life has no meaning a priori...It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre (born 21 June 1905)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ Mary McCarthy (born 21 June 1912)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling… ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (Solstice date 2007)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki

to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.'' ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~ (born 21 June 1892)
 * 2009
 * ''God grant me the serenity
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. … To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Ningauble
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

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

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
This date is usually that of the Summer solstice for most locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter solstice in the Southern, and thus quotes on the sun, summer, the seasons or solstices are invited.

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:44, 30 May 2011 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned. ~ Increase Mather
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:38, 26 October 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 06:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

title: June 21


text:
June 22

June 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (born 22 June 1906)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet. ~ Julian Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. ~ Julian Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on major events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!' - Vizzini, The Princess Bride
 * Rationale: On June 22, Nazi Germany began Operation Barbarossa -- got into a land war an Asia, a major turning point in WWII.

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:12, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2. I love this quote, but my fellow Americans might question which nation's mistakes are being celebrated here, especially if followed in 4 days by the Malraux quote. Jeff Q (talk) 10:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 One of my favorites from the movie, I remember laughing out loud at its perfect delivery, but I don't feel it makes a great QotD. ~ Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself. ~ Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery as it seems a little more relevant to Operation Barbarossa.
 * Also I added it myself AllanHainey 12:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is true. Russia's winter is nature's powerful gift that helped win two wars, one against Napoleon and another against Hitler. I love this quote. Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 22:10, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:35, 19 June 2024 (UTC) — with a lean toward 0, because the context of the quote is on the action of the US in the Vietnamese War, any relevance of this quote to the date of Operation Barbarossa is actually extremely tenuous, secondary, confused and confusing.

God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. ~ Morpheus (Deus Ex) (Rationale: the release date of Deus Ex)
 * Seconded. I loved how snooping around in that game could lead you to things that would make the game so much better. --Dandin1 01:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Seconded. I loved how snooping around in that game could lead you to things that would make the game so much better. --Dandin1 01:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

 * 2 Kalki 23:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

What we now need is a multitude of participants to take part in the great discussion and to join in the search for the larger truth and the more fruitful patterns of belief which we confidently believe is waiting to be elicited. ~ Julian Huxley
 * 3 Kalki 21:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 22:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 19:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:53, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

 * The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people. ~ Gilbert Highet
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:38, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, — forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water. ~ Gilbert Highet
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:38, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

title: June 22


text:
June 23

June 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ Alan Turing (born 23 June 1912)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and — our former riches. ~ Anna Akhmatova (born 23 June 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. ~ KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ Alan Turing
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * I've woven them a garment that's prepared out of poor words, those that I overheard, and will hold fast to every word and glance all of my days, even in new mischance, and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day. ~ Anna Akhmatova ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * As a white stone in the well's cool deepness, There lays in me one wonderful remembrance. I am not able and don't want to miss this: It is my torture and my utter gladness. I think, that he whose look will be directed Into my eyes, at once will see it whole.  ~ Anna Akhmatova ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. ~ Anna Akhmatova ~
 * 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 in regard to his recent death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past--and when you're seventy, nearly all of you. ~ Jean Anouilh
 * 3 because the older you get, the more difficult it becomes to forget. Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

It is always the one who reacts who is punished, never the one who provokes. ~ Zinedine Zidane
 * 3 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: July 12, 2006
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
 * 3 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
 * 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
 * 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle — it's just self-interest. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, but more context seems needed.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) more context needed.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC) Dido.

I recalled the ants I had watched as a child on the farm, building their hills one grain of sand at a time, only to have them senselessly destroyed in an instant by a passing foot. I'd pieced my life together the same way, slowly and agonizingly. Would it, too, be kicked callously into dust? ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

As for the matter of my judicial philosophy, I didn't have one- and didn't want one. A philosophy that is imposed from without instead of arising organically from day-to-day engagement with the law isn't worth having. Such a philosophy runs the risk of becoming an ideology, and I'd spent much of my adult life shying away from abstract ideological theories that served only to obscure the reality of life as it's lived. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel. ~ Clarence Thomas
 * 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:04, 17 June 2012 (UTC) 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) but still with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

''There is no death, each of us knows — it's banal to say. I'll leave it to others to explain.'' ~ Anna Akhmatova ~
 * 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 02:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:54, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

title: June 23


text:
Antz

Antz is a 1998 computer animation film produced by DreamWorks Animation, centering on a nonconformist worker ant who switches places with a soldier ant, in the process uncovering a plot to destroy the colony.
 * ''Directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson. Written by Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz and Todd Alcott.

Every ant has his day. (taglines)

Z

 * [first lines] All my life, I've lived and worked in the big city, which now that I think of it, is kind of a problem since I always feel uncomfortable around crowds. I mean it, I-I have this fear of enclosed spaces. I-I-I, everything makes me feel trapped all the time. You know, I always tell myself, there's gotta be something better out there, but maybe I think too much. I-I-I think everything must go back to the fact that I had a very anxious childhood. You know, my, my mother never had time for me. You know, when you're - when you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. I mean, how's it possible? And I've always had these, these abandonment issues, which plagued me. My father was basically a drone like I've said, and, you know, the guy flew away when I was just a larva. And my job, don't get me started on, 'cause it really annoys me. I was not cut out to be a worker, I'll tell you right now. I-I-I feel physically inadequate. I, I, my whole life I've never, I've never been able to lift more than ten times my own body weight, and, and when you get down to it, handling dirt is, you know, ewwww, is not my idea of a rewarding career. It's this whole gung-ho super-organism thing that, that, that I - you know, I can't get, I try but I can't get it. I mean, you know what is it, I'm supposed to do everything for the colony, and, and what about my needs? What about me? I mean, I gotta believe there's someplace out there that's better than this! Otherwise, I'll just curl up in a larval position and weep! The whole system makes me feel - insignificant!
 * Will you please calm down? You're not going to let a little near-death experience ruin your mood, are you?
 * [last lines] There you have it. Your average 'boy-meets-girl, boy-likes-girl, boy-changes-underlying-social-order' story. So, what else can I tell you? We rebuilt the colony - it's even better than before, you know, 'cause now it has a very large indoor swimming pool. Bala and I, incidentally, are thinking of starting a family. You know, just a few kids, maybe a million or two to begin with. And I'm, I'm workin' with a new therapist, you know, terrific, absolutely terrific. He's, he's been putting me in touch with my inner maggot, which is helping me a great deal. And, you know, I finally feel like I found my place, and you know what? It's right back where I started. But the difference is, this time I chose it.

Mandible

 * [to the foreman of the Mega-Tunnel] You can't help it. It's your nature. But in spite of your limitations, you are going to finish this tunnel on schedule! Come hell or high water! For now on, anyone who falls behind will personally answer to Colonel Cutter! And let me assure you, that the Colonel is not understanding as I am. Dismissed!
 * Sacrifice. To some, it is just a word. To others it is a code. The life of one individual ant does not matter. What matters is the colony. And each soldier knows that he's willing to live for the colony...to fight for the colony... to die for the colony.
 * I've heard a lot about this "Z". I even had the pleasure of meeting him once. But where is he now? Can anyone point him out? I mean, if this Z cares so much about us, then why isn't he here? I'll tell you why. Because Z doesn't give a damn about us! That's why he kidnapped our Princess! That's why he ran away! Z is no hero. We are the heroes! We are the ones ensuring the future of our great colony. And when we complete this magnificent structure, we will reap the benefits! More food, and less work for everyone. And as further reward for your heroic efforts, each and every one of you will get the day off. So you can be the guest of honor, at the Megatunnel dedication ceremony!
 * [last words] YOU USELESS, UNGRATEFUL MAGGOT! I AM THE COLONY!

Azteca

 * [to Weaver] Hey, hey, hey! Take it easy, muscles! You're making the rest of us look bad.
 * Don't tell that tight-ass anything, Weaver!

Others

 * Weaver: [to Z] Are you nuts?! You want me to switch places with you? Do you know how much trouble you can get into for even talkin' about impersonatin' a soldier? You can get in trouble just for listening to someone talkin' about impersonatin' a soldier! [Everyone who was listening in pretends to fall back asleep]
 * Barbatus: [his last words to Z] Don't make my mistake, kid. Don't follow orders your whole life. Think for yourself.
 * Bala: Labor? What do you know about labor? How would you feel if you were expected to give birth every ten seconds for the rest of your life?
 * Cutter: Time stands still for no ant.

Dialogue

 * Weaver: Yeah, and ever since we were little, I've been listening to you complain. What are you bitching about? In case you haven't noticed, we ants are running the show! We're the lords of the earth!
 * Z: Hey, don't talk to me about earth, okay? 'Cause I just spent all day hauling it around.

 * [Bala sneaks into the bar with two handmaidens]
 * Bala: [excited] Wow...This is so...gritty!
 * Handmaiden #1: Ten minutes and we're out of here, right? I mean, this place is off limits.
 * Bala: Just blame it on me. Say it was all my idea.
 * Handmaiden #2: It is all your idea!
 * Bala: [removes her crown] Besides, no one's gonna recognize us. Come on, girls, what do you say? Let's take a walk on the wild side.

 * Bala: [to her handmaidens] Step back, ladies. I'm gonna ask one of these workers to dance with me.
 * Z: [watching the other ants dance in unison] What a bunch of losers. Mindless zombies capitulating to an oppressive system-
 * Bala: Hi. Wanna dance?
 * Z: [upon turning to see her] Absolutely!
 * Bala: Follow me.
 * Z: [as they step onto the dance floor] So, how come I haven't seen you around here before?
 * Bala: Oh, I don't get out much. I, uh...I work over at the palace.
 * Z: The palace, huh? I bet those royals really live it up. [secretively] Of course, they're all a little, you know, from inbreeding.
 * Bala: What?

 * Z: Please, Weaver, please. Switch jobs with me just, you know, for a day. Think of all the things I've done for you.
 * Weaver: [pauses] Hm. I can't think of any.
 * Z: Okay, so think of all the things that I'm gonna do for you!
 * Weaver: [glances around, then leans in secretively] Would I meet some worker girls?
 * Z: Are you kidding? They always go after the new guy! It's like a sport for them!

 * Z: So these termites, they're, they're pushovers, right?
 * Barbatus: Not really, kid. They're five times our size, and they shoot acid from their foreheads.
 * Z: Huh?! [stops marching, gaping in disbelief]
 * Soldier: [gives Z a shove from behind] Hey! Keep it movin', shorty!
 * [Later, as the ant army is marching towards the termites' nest]
 * Z: So, what exactly does our platoon do? Are we gonna be serving beverages, or processing paperwork?
 * Barbatus: Our platoon has the best assignment of all. We're the first into battle.
 * [They marched up the termites' nest]
 * Z: [panicked] Hey, wait a minute, let's not get...we're being too hasty here! These guys sound like bruisers! Just how were you figuring on beating them?!
 * Barbatus: Superior numbers, kid. Overwhelm their defenses, and kill their queen.
 * Z: [stammering] I, um...Hey, fellas, that's...you're being a little extreme, I feel. Why don't...Why don't we just try and influence their political process with campaign contributions?
 * Barbatus: [laughing] I like you, kid. You got a sense of humor!
 * Ant Officer: Forward!
 * Barbatus: Come on! Let's kick some termite butt! OVER THE TOP!!!

 * [Z and Bala both sigh when they escape from the magnifying glass, and hide in the "wilderness"]
 * Z: Oh, don't worry. I'm okay.
 * Bala: You?! You're okay?! Hey, who cares about you?! I almost died here!
 * Z: Will you please calm down? You're not going to let a little near-death experience ruin your mood, are you?
 * Bala: Hey, this is not a mood. Okay? You're not listening to me. Where am I? [the praying mantis snores soundly, as the birds chirp in the background] Look, what's-your-name. Just climb up that tree, and find out where I am.
 * Z: Look, th-the trick is not to panic. You know, h-h-he w-who panics is lost. Aw...What am I saying? I mean, we are lost. [climbs up a stem of a thistle plant, but it droops over downwards towards Bala] Whoa! Whoa! [Bala gasps; he grins and chuckles sarcastically at Bala, but the thistle part of the plant breaks off of the thistle plant, and falls to the ground, with Z holding on to it] Ow!
 * Bala: [to herself] I've been kidnapped by the village idiot.
 * Z: Who's the bigger idiot? [gets up, as he plucks the thistle thorns off of his body] The idiot, or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot?
 * Bala: What'd you do? Talk those termites to death? I can't believe you tried to pass yourself off as a soldier. Why are you stalking me? Don't you realize that I'm...out of your league?
 * Z: You're the one who was cruising the worker bar looking for a little action! And you just happened to find it - the swarthy, earthy, sensual worker.
 * Bala: Please. I was slumming it. Don't you get it? I chose you because you were the most pathetic little bug in the joint.
 * Z: You know, I was gonna let you become part of my most erotic fantasies. But now, you can just forget that! Write it off, you know? I-I guess what you prefer is Old Blood and Guts! This guy's idea of a romantic night out is two seats at a public execution! Boy. You really chose the right husband. [climbs up a spiked stem of a rose]
 * Bala: For your information, the General and I are deeply, deeply in...engaged! You come right back down here this instant! We are marching straight back to the colony, so that I can go straight back to the palace, and tell my mother...
 * Z: [moves some of the rose's leaves out of his way with his hand, and sees the "monolith" (a drinking fountain) in the distance, the first of the series of landmarks on the way to Insectopia that Grebs told him about] The monolith!
 * Bala: ...and you can go back to your stupid little buggy bar!
 * Z: Absolutely. Wonderful. [climbs back down the rose's spiked stem towards Bala, who is standing on the ground] That's an appealing offer. But, considering the options, you go back. Okay? 'Cause I'm going to Insectopia.
 * Bala: Oh, come on! Insectopia? You're crazier than I thought.
 * Z: Yeah? Well, I happen to have it on a very reliable source. [clears his throat] Or...Or should I say, a drunk, raving source? But the point is, I'm convinced the place definitely exists! [heads on towards the monolith]
 * Bala: Stop! I order you to stop, worker!
 * Z: Hey! I got a name, okay?! It's Z! And out here, you can't order me around! [continues walking on]
 * Bala: All right! Fine! No problem! Grr! [goes the opposite direction of Z, but suddenly, the ground underneath her starts to shake and rise, and she finds herself on the back of the praying mantis, who turns and gnashes its jaws at her. She gasps, and then runs after Z in terror] Worker! Worker, where are you?! Z?! Z, wait for me!

 * [Cutter watches, as the Queen tells Mandible that she wants Bala back]
 * Queen: No more excuses, General. I want my daughter back. Frankly, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to handle this.
 * Mandible: Believe me, your highness, we'll spare no effort to bring her back. Princess Bala is essential to all our plans for the future.

 * [Z's independence has triggered a mass protest of workers]
 * Foreman: People, come on. I know some ants who aren't gonna make their quota-
 * Worker: Buzz off, pawn of the oppressor!

 * [Z has been trying to feast on a sandwich at a picnic, only to be blocked by the clingfilm it's wrapped in]
 * Bala: Well, what's the problem?
 * Z: There's some kind of force-field! [above them, two wasps, Chip and Muffy, arrive] Uh, excuse me? Excuse me? How...How do you get in?
 * Chip: [flying down to them] Yes, yes, well, I'm afraid this is a private function.
 * Muffy: Who are your friends, dear?
 * Chip: Crawling insects, poopsie.
 * Muffy: Oh, the poor dears. [to Z and Bala, slowly] Uh, good...morning!
 * Chip: Darling, really? Greeting every insect that emerges out of the grass?
 * Bala: Pardon me? I guess you don't recognize me! [the wasps land in front of them] I've been travelling, and I'm all...schlumpy. I'm Princess Bala.
 * Chip: Oh! [to Muffy] It's even worse. They're Eurotrash!
 * Muffy: Darling, they're poor, they're dirty, they're smelly. We have to help them. [leaning down, to Z and Bala] If you just wait right here, we'll get you a little something.
 * Chip: Ugh! Please, Muffy, not another crusade.
 * Muffy: Chippy, we have a social obligation to the less fortunate. [Chip rolls his eyes] I know you laugh at my hobbies, but this is important to me!
 * [Z and Bala flinch as she stamps in frustration]
 * Chip: Hm. You have such a big heart. That's why you're my little cuddly-widdles...!
 * Muffy: Oh, my big strong pheromone factory...!
 * [The wasps start kissing in an exaggerated manner]
 * Z: Oh, brother. Suddenly I've lost my appetite.

 * [Z and Bala sit with some other bugs around a campfire in Insectopia]
 * Ladybug: [tasting a brown lump] This stuff tastes like crap.
 * Fly: Really? Let me try some. [tastes it] Hey, it is crap! Not bad. [continues eating] Somebody needs to feed that fire.
 * Mosquito: Dude, I did it last time.
 * Fly: Well, I'm not gonna get it. It's not my job.
 * Ladybug: What about the new guy? He hasn't contributed yet.
 * [They observe Z and Bala talking by themselves]
 * Z: [about Barbatus] And...you know, he just died in my arms like that. I...You know, I don't think he ever once, in his life, made his own choice.
 * Bala: [moved and saddened] I never knew it was like that. I mean, up in the palace...Well, I guess we just let the General make all the decisions.
 * Z: Let me ask you something - what made you come to the bar that night?
 * Bala : I guess I was looking for a little trouble.
 * Z: Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but, uh, I don't want you spreading that around.
 * Bala: [chuckles] You're pretty strange. You do know that, don't you?
 * Z: Well, [clears throat] "strange" is...not exactly the word I would use, you know-
 * Bala: [smiling] I like it. You're not like anyone else.
 * Z: [stammering] Actually, now that you mention it, I...there is a certain strangeness to me. I mean, it's a...you know, kind of a bizarre quality. Some have said "freak". But it's, uh, you know, complimentary.
 * [Bala keeps smiling, leaning towards him, and they are about to kiss]
 * Fly: Hey, new guy! We need more wood.
 * [Bala shrugs disappointedly]
 * Z: I'll be right back. Just hold that thought - whatever...whatever it is you were thinking. [to the other bugs, as he leaves] Hey, you ever wonder why they call you guys "pests"?
 * Mosquito: What if, like, we're just these tiny things, and we're just, like, part of this whole other huge universe that's, like, so big we don't even know it exists?
 * Ladybug: [chuckles] Man, that is so deep.

 * [The ants made a big hole above the ground avoiding drowning from the oncoming flood]
 * Mandible: What the hell is that?!
 * Cutter: I think that's the "weak elements", sir.
 * Z: Gimme a hand!
 * Mandible: Z! You?! Let go! [grabs a spear] Don't you understand?! It's for the good of the colony!
 * Z: What are you saying?! We are the colony!
 * [Mandible is about to kill Z with the spear, but Cutter punches his face, knocking him down]
 * Mandible: [rubbing his face] Cutter, what are you doing?
 * Cutter: Something I should have done, a long time ago. This is for the good of the colony, sir. [grabs onto Z's hand to pull him up]
 * Mandible: [glares at Cutter in fury] YOU USELESS, UNGRATEFUL MAGGOT! I AM THE COLONY! [charges at him]
 * Z: [gasps] Look out!
 * [As Z pushes Cutter aside, Mandible tackles him and they fall down into the hole past the colony. Mandible hits a root, killing him, and Z lands into the water, uncounscious]
 * Bala: Z!
 * [Cutter's eyes widen]
 * Cutter: [determined] Men, let's move it! Get these ants up here!
 * [The soldiers start pulling the ants out. Cutter flies into the hole and dives in. Z continues to sink. Cutter rescues his friend]
 * Queen Ant: Thank goodness we made it.

Cast

 * Woody Allen — Z Marion-4195
 * Dan Aykroyd — Chip the Wasp
 * Anne Bancroft — The Ant Queen
 * Jane Curtin — Muffin "Muffy" the Wasp
 * Danny Glover — Staff Sergeant Barbatus
 * Gene Hackman — General Mandible
 * Jennifer Lopez — Azteca
 * John Mahoney — Grebs
 * Paul Mazursky — The Psychiatrist
 * Grant Shaud — The Foreman
 * Sylvester Stallone — Corporal Weaver
 * Sharon Stone — Princess Bala
 * Christopher Walken — Colonel Cutter

Taglines

 * Every ant has his day.
 * Every ant runs the colony.
 * See the world from a whole new perspective.
 * Actual size of the next really big movie star.
 * Antz iz coming 10-2-98.
 * "The hero." (Z tagline)
 * "The princess." (Bala tagline)
 * "Best friend." (Weaver tagline)
 * "The general." (Mandible tagline)

title: Antz