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August 15

August 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ Sri Aurobindo (born 15 August 1872), also Independence Day of India (15 August 1947)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ Thomas De Quincey (born 15 August 1785)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality. ~ Sri Aurobindo (date of birth, and the 60th Independence day of India)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. ~ Napoleon I of France ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * True spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Nvvchar

<!-- We are putting in the centre the white, the white of the Sun’s rays. The white means the path of light...the orange, the Bhaguwa colour, represents the spirit of renunciation. All forms of renunciation are to be embodied in Raja Dharma. Philosophers must be kings. Our leaders must be disinterested. They must be dedicated spirits...the green is there, our relation to the soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends. We must build our Paradise, here on this green earth...Thus flag tells us ‘Be ever alert, be ever on the move, go forward, work for a free, flexible, compassionate, decent, democratic society on which Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists will all find a safe shelter. Let us all unite under this banner and rededicate ourselves to the ideas our flag symbolizes. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

 * 4 For the special occasion of Independence Day (India) on 15 August. --Nvvchar (talk) 08:40, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC), but I have looked over a few different translations or renditions of this, and would extend it and alter it slightly to read:
 * The Flag links up the past and the present. It is the legacy bequeathed to us by the architects of our liberty. … The world is full of misunderstandings, suspicions and distrusts. In these difficult days it depends on us under what banner we fight. Here we are Putting in the very centre the white, the white of the Sun's rays. The white means the path of light … the ideal light, the light of truth … The Asoka's wheel represents to us the wheel of the Law, the wheel Dharma. Truth can be gained only by the pursuit of the path of Dharma, by the practice of virtue. ...the orange, the Bhagwa colour, represents the spirit of renunciation. All forms of renunciation are to be embodied in Raja Dharma… Our leaders must be disinterested. They must be dedicated spirits … the green is there, our relation to the soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends. We must build our Paradise, here on this green earth... This flag tells us "Be ever alert, be ever on the move, go forward, work for a free, flexible, compassionate, decent, democratic society in which Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists will all find a safe shelter." Let us all unite under this banner and rededicate ourselves to the ideas our flag symbolizes. -->

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the recent physical attack upon him.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ~ Mark Twain in honour of the India independence day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:48, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: I could not find this quote on the Mark Twain page. Jedi3.

This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake. ~ Robert Bolt (born August 15, 1924)

 * 3 Kalki 16:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC) but I would extend this to include the immediately preceding dialogue leading up to "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you—where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because it is always the victor who smiles and the vanquished who remains guilty. Truly, enigmatically, it is better to eat than be eaten, complete ideology of darwinism defined and a very militant persona to embody, which I myself believe holds powerful enthralling magnetism and high moral standards. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) ''As I said for a quote on the 14th, "The same sentiment has been stated much more "pleasingly" (for grievous lack of a better word)."

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because the rank of king in itself is characterized as a crime. Very magnificent explanation of blame toward the highest rank. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

A picture is worth a thousand words. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because actions are always speak louder than words, and as such, similarly, an image speaks a thousand words in a thousand ways. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC) reduced ranking, as this is likely the paraphrasing of an expressed thought with the modern english proverb; would prefer to use: "A good sketch is better than a long speech." which I have suggested below.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ~ Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Is this, in fact, originally Napoleon's quote? It's unsourced in his article, and I think it's slightly inappropriate and POV as QOTD to ascribe an ancient / anonymous quote to a particular historical figure.

Better to have a known enemy than a hidden ally. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 4 because this is very true and holds high moral value...the hidden is always more dangerous than that which we can see. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC) 2 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC) tactical reduction — though there is merit to the observation, I am not inclined to rank it among the best of the quotes available, and would rank many others by Napoleon far higher.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I definitely don't think this is "very true." I could give some examples, but this isn't the place for discourse. There's definitely a problem with quotes that seem to have "lyrical validity" and are thus accepted, when in fact, in the real world it is rather obvious that the opposite is true. There may be some "wisdom" gained in looking at the world in such a way for a moment, but often upon realistic observation, they prove absurd. I choose the guardian angel....

Cruelty can only be justified by necessity. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because this is very true, where cruelty has become a standardized rationale for human behavior and necessity has been entangled as one of its most dominating excuses. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) This would be a really good quote if Napoleon then said something about the epistemological uncertainty and dubious nature of necessity.

In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat, you need it. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because sometimes a drink can truly calm one in a moment of defeat. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ~ Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Perfect (text-book) addictive mindset! I'm not sure what to give this one, it's important for a much different reason that Zarbon posits.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because actions truly speak louder than words. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) There are quite a few ancient figures that we have fragments extant of what they said, but know little, if anything, of what they did. That doesn't, in any way, defeat the idea "actions speak louder than words," but it is related.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast. ~ Napoleon I of France (born August 15)
 * 3 because perseverence and dominating are very admirable qualities, and believing that nothing will topple you is key to determination. Zarbon 06:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been. ~ Charles Godfrey Leland
 * 3 Zarbon 05:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki 00:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

War is becoming an anachronism … There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 14 August 2023 (UTC) 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

A good sketch is better than a long speech. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The superior man is never in anyone's way. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Imagination governs the world. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you. ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances ~ Napoleon I of France
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell. This too the traveller of the worlds must dare. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

All can be done if the god-touch is there. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

All things are real that here are only dreams, In our unknown depths sleeps their reserve of truth, On our unreached heights they reign and come to us In thought and muse trailing their robes of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon; and only those who do not limit their view to the act and its immediate results, can see how tremendous are its after-effects, how much is eventually destroyed and with that much all the life that depended upon it and fed upon it. Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man's unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Do not be afraid of obstacles in your path, it does not matter how great the forces are that stand in your way.... Do not think that anything is impossible when miracles are being worked on every side. If you are true to yourself there is nothing to be afraid of. There is nothing unattainable by truth, love and faith. ~ Sri Aurobindo
 * 3 --Jedi3 (talk) 08:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 --ᘙ (talk) 11:20, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

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September 15

September 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. ~ "A Song of Defeat" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him. ~ Carlos Castaneda
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ~ Agatha Christie (born 15 September 1890)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld (born 15 September 1613)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld (born 15 September 1613)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. ~ Agatha Christie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. ~ Agatha Christie (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. ~ Agatha Christie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. ~ Agatha Christie's "Hercule Poirot"
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:42, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2. We did her last year. David | Talk 09:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 14:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts. ~ Agatha Christie (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 2. David | Talk 09:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Nothing is given so profusely as advice. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld (born 15 September 1613)
 * 3 Kalki 06:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. (He's wrong, though.) David | Talk 09:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Some people's faults are becoming to them; others are disgraced by their own good traits. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
 * 3 InvisibleSun 14:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 03:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is so easy and it costs so little labour to write down ten bushels of barley, or a hundred head of cattle, or ten fields of spelt — and the thing that is written will come to seem like the real thing, and so the writer and the scribe will come to despise the man who ploughs the fields and reaps the barley and raises the cattle — but all the same the fields and the cattle are real — they are not just marks of inks on papyrus. And when all the records and all the papyrus rolls are destroyed and the scribes are scattered, the men who toil and reap will go on, and Egypt will still live. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

The more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings — not dummies! Be personal — be prejudiced — be catty — be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards! ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Trust the train Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

We know almost all there is to know. Except that what we know seems incredible. Impossible. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. ~ Agatha Christie
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo

 * 2 because it's a good aphorism; reasons to live are an important them in Pavese. Nemo 14:16, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. ~ James Fenimore Cooper (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:45, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 with a lean toward 4. ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:03, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach — it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end. ~ William Howard Taft (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:45, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:03, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 4 Williamstuart9 15:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:53, 15 September 2013 (UTC) no clear relation to the date.

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title: September 15


text:
October 15

October 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ Margaret Mead
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Behold the believers of all beliefs! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker — he, however, is the creator. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (born 15 October 1844)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born 15 October 1908)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are the students who instruct in error. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * Used 1 May 2006, selected by Kalki

 * One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human
 * Used 16 September 2003), selected by Nanobug

 * He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 18 October 2003, selected by Paullusmagnus

 * I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 31 December 2003, selected by Basil Fawlty

 * Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Used 13 April 2004, selected by Kalki

 * What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
 * Used 20 September 2004, selected by Kalki

 * I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
 * Used 29 December 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
God is dead! God stays dead! And we killed him. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of birth)
 * 3 (Another famous [or infamous] quote) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:26, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC) but might possibly rank this higher if expanded for context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

So long as thou feelest the stars as an "above thee," thou lackest the eye of the discerning one. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born 15 October 1908)
 * 3 Kalki 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Everything I do, I do in order that it may be of use. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom. ~ Michel Foucault
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 3 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

...half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women. ~ Abdul Kalam
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. ~ Virgil
 * 2 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. ~ Virgil
 * 3 Zarbon 05:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:38, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. ~ Italo Calvino (born October 15, 1923)
 * 3 Ningauble 00:55, 6 October 2008 (UTC) ~ I am also agreeable to the longer passage, if it is not too much. The short form is a little rarefied. ~ Ningauble 18:31, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 for the full version only: "With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." - Zarbon 14:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC) for the expanded version.
 * 3 for the expanded version. - InvisibleSun 20:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Possunt, quia posse videntur. They can because they think they can. ~ Virgil
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold. ~ Virgil
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.
 * Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
 * And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
 * Expelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore.
 * Long labours both by sea and land he bore. ~ Virgil, opening lines of the Aeneid (as translated by John Dryden)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. The world is a world of tears and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. ~ Virgil, Aeneid 1.462 (trans. Robert Fagles)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

''Equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.'' Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. ~ Virgil
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained, For all mankind. But by their deeds to make Their fame last: that is labor for the brave. ~ Virgil
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:17, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:17, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

title: October 15


text:
November 15

November 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. ~ Jack Kerouac in On The Road
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. ~ William Cowper (born 15 November 1731 (O.S.), but actually 26 November by modern Gregorian reckoning.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater (born 15 November 1741)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ~ Marianne Moore~ (born 15 November 1887)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2008
 * Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. ~ Erwin Rommel
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. ~ Felix Frankfurter
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * We need not think alike to love alike. ~ Ferenc Dávid (died 15 November 1579, date of birth unknown )
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed. ~ Plato.

 * 2 ~ UDScott 13:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (born 15 November 1708)
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~ Franklin Pierce Adams (born 15 November 1881)
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ~ Felix Frankfurter (born 15 November 1882)
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:43, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

On the question you ask depends the answer you get. ~ Felix Frankfurter
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe (born 15 November 1887)
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ~ Marianne Moore
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The power of the visible is the invisible; as even where no tree of freedom grows, so-called brute courage knows. ~ Marianne Moore ~
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. ~ Erwin Rommel (born 15 November 1891)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:05, 14 November 2014 (UTC) 2 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 because I believe in this strongly. The man who has the extra shotgun shell or pistol bullet shall be the one left standing. Zarbon 16:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ~ Erwin Rommel
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. ~ Curtis LeMay
 * 3 Zarbon 05:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket it's tough guys who lead the survivors. ~ Curtis LeMay
 * 3 Zarbon 05:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Man must first live before he can live abundantly. ~ Aneurin Bevan
 * 2 Zarbon 06:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 21:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth. ~ Ferenc Dávid
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:09, 13 November 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

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

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

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

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

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:31, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:31, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:31, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

title: November 15


text:
December 15

December 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. ~ Freeman Dyson (born 15 December 1923)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. ~ Freeman Dyson (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is not the right angle that attracts me, Nor the hard, inflexible straight line, man-made. What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves in my country’s mountains, In the sinuous flow of its rivers, In the beloved woman’s body. ~ Oscar Niemeyer (his 100th Birthday — born 15 December 1907)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe as a whole is also weird, with laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. ~ Freeman Dyson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney (Date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ Freeman Dyson
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki; a quote from the previous film in the series, in regard to the official opening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on this date.

 * 2018

 * proposed by UDScott for date of Pauli's death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ Freeman Dyson
 * used 14 May 2004, selected by Kalki

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Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad? ~ Oscar Niemeyer
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work. ~ Oscar Niemeyer
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

What an artist dies in me! ~ Nero (born December 15)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Nero by Edward Champlin - History - 2003 - Page 51
 * 2 Kalki 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hidden talent counts for nothing. ~ Nero (born December 15)
 * 3 because talent is worth nothing if it isn't seen. The same can be said for decisions, ideas, and solutions. Hiding qualities will never allow others to comprehend and understand them. Zarbon 03:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Flames of Rome - Page 221 by Paul L. Maier - 1991
 * 1 Kalki 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC) the ultimate measure of the effectiveness of both talent and genius is knowing when to show it, and when not to. Hidden talents can sometimes count a great deal.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. ~ Freeman Dyson
 * 3 Zarbon 07:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I love the war because there is victory at its end. ~ Alp Arslan
 * 2 Zarbon 07:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:K8evs123

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User talk:KaiBailey~enwikiquote

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User talk:Satheesan

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User talk:Leflamis~enwikiquote

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User talk:H3yjt

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User talk:Dakone2k~enwikiquote

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User:Linkman2004~enwikiquote

Pizza rules

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User:Childzy~enwikiquote

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Childzy

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User:Gzornenplatz~enwikiquote

This user name was created by a tragically infantile vandal with apparently little better to do than be a nuisance to others; it has been permanently blocked. ~ Kalki 14:55, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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User:RickK~enwikiquote

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User:Shanel

Hello! My name is Shanel Kalicharan. My edits on this wiki are mostly part of my steward work. If you have any comments or questions, please let me know on my global talk page!

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User talk:Vandal Imposter ab38c83dddea98d9abacd9dabe

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User talk:RickK~enwikiquote

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User talk:Gzornenplatz~enwikiquote

This user name was created by a tragically infantile vandal with apparently little better to do than be a nuisance to others; it has been permanently blocked. ~ Kalki 14:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins M.D. Ph.D. (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents, and for over 12 years.

Quotes

 * The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
 * The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006), p. 211

 * As someone who's had the privilege of leading the human genome project, I've had the opportunity to study our own DNA instruction book at a level of detail that was never really possible before. It's also now been possible to compare our DNA with that of many other species. The evidence supporting the idea that all living things are descended from a common ancestor is truly overwhelming. I would not necessarily wish that to be so, as a Bible-believing Christian. But it is so. It does not serve faith well to try to deny that.
 * "God Is Not Threatened by Our Scientific Adventures", interview by Laura Sheahen, Beliefnet (undated)

 * There are answers that science isn’t able to provide about the natural world—the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I’m interested in the whys. I find many of those answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
 * Time magazine

 * Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.
 * "Collins: Why this scientist believes in God", editorial, CNN (April 6, 2007)

 * "We'll get closer to perfect kids from caring families and good education than we'll ever get from genetics." 2005 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript, https://www.genome.gov/DNADay/q.cfm?aid=5419&year=2005

 * Reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
 * cnn.com

 * I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
 * cnn.com

 * I would not expect religion to be the right tool for sequencing the human genome and by the same token would not expect science to be the means to approaching the supernatural. But on the really interesting larger questions, such as ‘Why are we here?’ or ‘Why do human beings long for spirituality?,’ I find science unsatisfactory. Many superstitions have come into existence and then faded away. Faith has not, which suggests it has reality.
 * WOL

 * ... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible.
 * (quote at 21:43 of 1:33:09)

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The first quote is: "I don't see that as necessary at all and I think it is deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the extremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the past 20 years." What is this referring to? What is "not necessary at all"? This is an example of a quote which doesn't make sense by itself. - InvisibleSun 16:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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Made a few layout changes. Some of the quotes still require some context --SolarBreeze 09:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It will be great if you add context. The way to make remarks, please see Templates.
 * And I am sorry to say, I changed your layout back to the previous. We have a rule for formatting regarding citation and verification, so your removal of "unsourced" section isn't simply acceptable. For theme-specific sectionizing, our current conseusus is it should be discouraged in relation to WQ:NPOV policy. You are invited WQ:VP to discuss this issue further. --Aphaia 19:11, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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 * The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

 * I see God's hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings in his image and decided that the mechanism of evolution was an elegant way to accomplish that goal, who are we to say that is not the way.

 * Scientifically, the forces of evolution by natural selection have been profoundly affected for humankind by the changes in culture and environment and the expansion of the human species to 6 billion members. So what you see is pretty much what you get.

 * One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.

 * I don't see that as necessary [that they are in conflict] at all and I think it is deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the extremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the past 20 years.

 * I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

 * I was very happy with the idea that God didn't exist, and had no interest in me. And yet at the same time, I could not turn away.

 * If one is willing to accept the existence of God or some supernatural force outside nature then it is not a logical problem to admit that, occasionally, a supernatural force might stage an invasion.

 * It was a beautiful afternoon and suddenly the remarkable beauty of creation around me was so overwhelming, I felt, 'I cannot resist this another moment'.

 * They had terrible diseases from which they were probably not going to escape, and yet instead of railing at God they seemed to lean on their faith as a source of great comfort and reassurance. That was interesting, puzzling and unsettling.

 * This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

 * When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you can't survey that going through page after page without a sense of awe. I can't help but look at those pages and have a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God's mind.

 * When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it, But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.

About Collins (unsourced)

 * “Francis Collins is an extraordinary scientist and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet,”
 * Dr. Otis W. Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

 * "He is upbeat, optimistic and highly addicted to all aspects of science … an important leader in moving from sequencing the genome to thinking about how the genetics of various diseases might be pursued,"

 * "This is a guy of tremendous creativity, vision and enough charisma to mobilize large segments of the scientific community."
 * Alan I. Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a former head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

 * "You think of scientists as more controlled and dour; he is outgoing and personable."
 * David Baltimore, a professor of biology and 1975 Nobel Laureate for Medicine

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 * "We'll get closer to perfect kids from caring families and good education than we'll ever get from genetics." 2005 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript, https://www.genome.gov/DNADay/q.cfm?aid=5419&year=2005

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