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May 29

May 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ Steven Wright
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. ~ T. H. White (born 29 May 1906)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton (born 29 May 1874)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011 :
 * Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * 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 ~
 * used 15 September 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 21 January 2004, selected by Kalki

 * If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 12 February 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * 19 April 2004, selected by Kalki

 * 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. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 18 June 2004, selected by Kalki

 * What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 12 July 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 13 July 2004, selected by Kalki

 * The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 16 December 2004, selected by Kalki

 * There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 14 August 2005, proposed by MosheZadka

 * Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 8 November 2005, proposed by MosheZadka

 * We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 16 November 2007, proposed by Jeff Q

Suggestions
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. - G. K. Chesterton
 * 3 Herby  talk thyme 14:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 12:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

When I was a child, I was told anyone can become president. Now, I'm starting to believe it. (Found on a "Good Earth" tea bag)

 * 2 Kalki 06:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Interesting quote, but no clear author, and no clear relationship to the date.
 * 3 but I wonder who said it Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Unless source found. InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ~ Clarence Darrow ~ bystander (talk) 05:39, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

 * 0 No particular interest to see quote + there is no source for it. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. ~ Oswald Spengler
 * 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ~ Oswald Spengler
 * 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 with a mild lean toward 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 3 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 2.5 needs a bit of a crop, if done, 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 03:29, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 Anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * This quote was already used as QOTD, precisely in this form, less than 2 years ago, for Quote of the day/July 20, 2016. Though there have been a few times over the years in which a QOTD or portions of it have been used as a portion of a later QOTD, and a few occasions where one was accidentally repeated in exactly the form it was once used before, generally repetition has been avoided in the QOTD. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:11, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

title: May 29


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July 29

July 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. ~ IBM maintenance manual, 1925
 * proposed by MosheZadka in honor of ENIAC, the world's first digital computer, being reactivated on 29 July 1947, after a memory upgrade that took the better part of a year

 * 2006
 * No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (born 29 July 1805)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. ~ "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958" creating NASA (signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on the 29th of July 1958; 50th anniversary of NASA in 2008)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * For all that has been — Thanks. For all that shall be — Yes. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Now I understand what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free — They would not listen They did not know how, Perhaps they'll listen now. ~ Don McLean ~ in "Vincent (Starry Starry Night|)" (date Vincent Van Gogh died of a gunshot wound to the chest.)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 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
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

what man calls civilization always results in deserts ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:26, 26 July 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC) might even reduce my ranking even further, because there are no longer all that many men of principle in either party in our times. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:43, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:26, 26 July 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 02:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)
 * 3 because courage and preparedness are key to victory. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)
 * 4 because having power is important, moreso than having every single person agree with it. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

It's good to trust others, but not to do so is much better. ~ Benito Mussolini (born July 29)
 * 3 because trust is good, but it is always good to be prepared. Zarbon 16:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The effective execution of a Plan is what counts and not mere planning on paper; it is not what we put on our plate or even what we eat that provides nourishment and growth, but what we digest. ~ J. R. D. Tata
 * 2 Zarbon 20:10, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 01:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.~ Theda Bara
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ~ Theda Bara
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again. ~ William Beebe (born 29 July 1877)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:42, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC) with a lean to 4

You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:36, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:53, 7 September 2010 (UTC) -- It would be useful if some context information is provided in parenthesis. 4 N6n 14:52, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC) Needs context.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small — your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 3 N6n 02:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 08:16, 11 May 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:44, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC) but still with a VERY strong lean toward 4. 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:44, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

A scientist can be tactful and PC with his mouth, but not his ears or eyes and certainly not his mind. Truth must reign there above all. For your first allegiance is either to Truth or to Ignorance. Worry about offending, and you are choosing Ignorance. ~ Patri Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:31, 20 November 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.~ Patri Friedman
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:31, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity. ~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:24, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:24, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

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title: July 29


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August 29

August 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ~ Clarence Darrow
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ William Cowper
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (born 29 August 1809)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ~ John Locke (born 29 August 1632)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can … conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. ~ John McCain
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing — until there is only … the dance. ~ Michael Jackson ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011 :
 * New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke
 * 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 Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the scheduled launch of Artemis 1, the Artemis project's unmanned first test mission around the moon.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Josephine W.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
On August 29th, 1997, it's gonna feel pretty fucking real to you too. Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it? ~ Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 121a0012 00:13, August 25, 2005 (UTC) (best to avoid profanity on main page)
 * 0 Kalki 23:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC) agree with above statement.
 * 0 because too much profanity. Zarbon 16:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman
 * 2 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

As people are not eaten, butchering them is of no use. ~ Arndt Pekurinen
 * 3 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. ~ John McCain
 * 2 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars. ~ John McCain
 * 3 Zarbon 06:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC) Obvious.

You know I do really hate to say it The government don't wanna see But if Roosevelt was livin' He wouldn't let this be. ~ Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us
 * 4 Zarbon 15:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Some things in life they just don't wanna see But if Martin Luther was livin' He wouldn't let this be. ~ Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 15:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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September 29

September 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ~ Marion Barry
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~ Henry Melvill (originally misattributed to Herman Melville)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. ~ attributed to Enrico Fermi (born 29 September 1901)
 * proposed by IP 65.110.28.95

 * 2006
 * Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ Miguel de Unamuno (born 29 September 1864)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. ~ Miguel de Cervantes (born 29 September 1547)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. ~ Book of Daniel (Ch. 12), the first mention of Michael, for Michaelmas, 29 September.
 * 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 for Michaelmas.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! ~ Pompey (born September 29)
 * 3 because words can only go so far. Pompey says it brilliantly. Zarbon 06:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:08, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. ~ Miguel de Cervantes (born September 29)
 * 3 because the pen can write and yes, it has become powerful, but the sword remains powerful and will always remain powerful. Zarbon 17:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Consciousness is a disease. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
 * 3 because not seeing is sometimes better than seeing and to always be conscious destroys a person's moral standards, especially after witnessing what a person witnesses nowadays. Zarbon 16:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:08, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Everything vital is, not only irrational, but anti-rational, and everything rational is anti-vital. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
 * 3 because what is good for others, may not be good for you, and what is good for you, may most certainly not be good for others. Zarbon 16:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. ~ Horatio Nelson
 * 3 and leaning towards a 4. This is what I live for. This is another quote that defines me. Well said Mr. Nelson. Zarbon 05:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC) The false ideals of absolute obligation to obedience of any mortal's commands or demands, are always a part of the ideologies of slaves of true evil, even when those who would be obeyed are thought of as wise or well intentioned, whether simply by themselves or even by many others.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all. ~ Horatio Nelson
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. ~ Horatio Nelson
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:08, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

The moon, full-orbed, forsakes her watery cave, And lifts her lovely head above the wave; The snowy splendours of her modest ray Stream over the glistening waves, and quivering play; Around her, glittering on the heaven's arched brow, Unnumbered stars, enclosed in azure, glow, Thick as the dew-drops of the April dawn, Or May-flowers crowding over the daisy lawn; The canvas whitens in the silvery beam, And with a mild pale-red the pendants gleam; The masts' tall shadows tremble over the deep; The peaceful winds a holy silence keep. ~ William Julius Mickle
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 18:34, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 27 September 2014 (UTC) but there are many by Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Unamuno, or related to the Archangel Micheal for Michaelmas which I am likely to long prefer.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

title: September 29


text:
October 29

October 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. ~ John Schaar
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. ~ Muhammad
 * proposed by Kalki; in 2005, Laylat al-Qadr (The Night of Power) is traditionally celebrated on this night (as the start of the 27th of Ramadan in the Muslim calendar) by many Muslims.

 * 2006
 * We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~ James Boswell
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2007
 * This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star. ~ Brian G. Marsden (on the recent unprecedented brightening of Comet Holmes)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ James Boswell (born 29 October 1740)
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2009
 * No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~ Alfred Jules Ayer (born 29 October 1910)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes. ~ Bill Mauldin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~ Fanny Brice (born 29 October 1891)
 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. ~ Joseph Goebbels (born October 29)

OR

Alternate version: If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Alternate version: If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. Alternate version: If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth. Alternate version: If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it.
 * 4 because a man who repeats a lie a thousand fold eventually convinces oneself and others that it holds truth. Zarbon 04:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Quoted in "The Sack of Rome" - Page 14 - by Alexander Stille and also quoted in "A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance" - Page 63 by Mike Moore - 2003
 * 1 Kalki 18:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC) This, and variants of it, have been published most often as a quotation of Goebbels, but in this and other forms it has also been quoted as a statement of Hitler, so the original source and phrasing remains somewhat disputed.
 * I wouldn't say it's disputed. The quote is derived from Goebbels and he is credited with the quote in numerous reliable sources. To say otherwise and attribute the quote to Hitler is incorrect in itself, considering the man did not say the quote. Still, it is a nice quote, and all the references I've pulled have suggested that it belongs to Goebbels only. Zarbon 22:08, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (misquote/paraphrase) Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: This is neither a misquotation nor a paraphrase. I provided all of the versions of this quote that he has repeated in the same section of his page. Also, I have provided the quote's source so as to avoid any confusion to misquotation. Again, this is not a misquotation. I even provided two different sources in order to ensure that. Zarbon 03:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a distinction to be drawn between original sources and other attributions. He certainly expressed the general idea himself on multiple occasions, and such words are widely attributed to him, partly because of the great irony in that he both criticized opponents with similar words and also frankly practiced the technique himself. But as to the words themselves, in my opinion a Quote of the Day ought to be an actual quotation. ~ Ningauble 13:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This is still a quotation nonetheless. It is not attributed to others. The only person who said it was him, therefore, it is not an attribution, it is one of his quotes. Bare in mind it is neither a misquote nor a paraphrase. The fact that he said it in many different ways doesn't make it either of those things. In fact, it strengthens the argument that he used the quote frequently, which originated from him. I've relisted all the versions of the same quote by him so as to be clear about it. Zarbon 13:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0. Multiple versions of a quote don't make it more reliable; it would be like saying that rumors are more reliable than facts. - InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0? I just provided all the versions of the quote, all attributed to the same person. In what way does it make it unreliable. In fact, this is getting very annoying. What is necessary, a scan of the page that the quote is derived from? This quote has been sourced many times over. It does not qualify for a 0, and neither do any of the other quotes. Zarbon 01:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

A child laughs when it feels joy and cries when it feels pain. Both things, laughing and crying it does with its whole heart. We all became so tall and so clever. We know so much and we have read so much. But one thing we forgot: to laugh and cry like the children do. ~ Joseph Goebbels
 * 3 Zarbon 03:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 18:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC) This is another that in many ways seems rather uncharacterstic of Goebbels, and I can find no reliable sources which indicate it to actually be a quotation by him. If a source were found I might conceivably rank it a 1 or 2 in relation to some form of irony.
 * This quote is not unsourced. The source is "Michael : a German fate in diary notes (1926)" Zarbon 22:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The cited source is mentioned in Wikipedia (if you can believe that source) as a novel by Joseph Goebbels, if anyone feels inclined to track it down. ~ Ningauble 00:50, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * For the second time, this quote is NOT unsourced. Zarbon 01:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection. ~ Walter Raleigh (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing — Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill. ~ Walter Raleigh

OR

Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can kill. ~ Walter Raleigh
 * 3 for both versions. Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC) with preference for the shorter version.
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 for the shorter version Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 for the shorter version. - InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Cowards fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. ~ Walter Raleigh
 * 3 Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. ~ Walter Raleigh
 * 3 Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all, for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. ~ Walter Raleigh
 * 3 Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. ~ Jean Giraudoux
 * 3 Zarbon 14:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 12:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 17:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~ Jean Giraudoux
 * 3 Kalki 08:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. ~ Bill Mauldin
 * 3 Kalki 08:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. You step out on the stage and you can feel it is a nervous audience. So you calm them down. I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. I'm still. I don't move. I wait for the introduction. Maybe I cough. Maybe I touch myself. But before I do anything, I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills. ~ Fanny Brice, (born 29 October 1891)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:17, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

title: October 29


text:
November 29

November 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Find the good — and praise it. ~ Alex Haley
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C. S. Lewis (born 29 November 1898)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ~ C.S. Lewis (date of birth)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. ~ C.S. Lewis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. ~ Wendell Phillips
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott (born 29 November 1832)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ C.S. Lewis
 * proposed by dgwingert

 * 2011
 * It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

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

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki ; in regard to her recent death, and her scheduled funeral on this date.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * used 5 April 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. ~ C.S. Lewis (date of birth)
 * 3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 07:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Some people think that friendliness is a sign of weakness, when in reality it is a sign of strength. ~ Hans Wolfgang Singer
 * I just kike this quote and think someday it should be qotm.--McNoddy 14:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC) copied this quote and rankings for it here from it's original placement by McNoddy as a suggestion for 6 March.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 07:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Where is the Wikiquote page for this person? - InvisibleSun 21:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is as yet uncreated, but the quote itself still ranks highly, and might prompt me or others to eventually create a page here .... ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories. ~ Wendell Phillips
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Antiquary 20:44, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want to be proud of myself. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven't done. ~ Tom Hurndall
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 20:44, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 02:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. ~ Jacques Chirac
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:27, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 20:44, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 02:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Love is a great beautifier. ~ Louisa May Alcott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (he actually wrote: "The value of the myth"...) ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 (original: "It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.") DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. ~ C. S. Lewis ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 00:48, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

A children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3,5 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." ~ C. S. Lewis
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 13:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

title: November 29


text:
December 29

December 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * 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
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
 * If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson (born 29 December 1808)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ Pablo Casals
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone (born December 29, 1809)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Yes, the springtime was in need of you. Often a star waited for you to espy it and sense its light. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past, or as you walked below an open window, a violin gave itself to your hearing. All this was trust. But could you manage it? Were you not always distraught by expectation, as if all this were announcing the arrival of a beloved? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; lines from Murder in the Cathedral for the death date of Thomas Becket

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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I care not what happens when I am dead and gone. ~ Madame de Pompadour
 * 2 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 4, but I would prefer the original phraseAprès nous, le déluge.After us, the deluge.A very famous quote, also attributed to Louis XV Ficaia (talk) 09:14, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful. ~ Ritsuko Okazaki
 * 3 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''The church shall be open, even to our enemies. We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered.'' ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:05, 20 December 2012 (UTC) lines from Murder in the Cathedral for the death date of Thomas Becket

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. ~ William Gaddis Agape Agape (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion. ~ William Gaddis The Recognitions
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. ~ William Gaddis The Recognitions
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~ Mary Tyler Moore (goodreads author quotes)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC) — but tempering my ranking, as I have not yet located the original source of this, but the earliest reference I have found indicates it to be a line of her character "Mary Richards" in her show, rather than something originating with her personally.

Amidst the early morning dew Walking across the greenery And in the evening that is scary While taking a breath, Oh, flower, I listen to your song, Oh flower, I defeat your love. ~ Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa
 * 3 tending to 4--Nvvchar (talk) 05:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC) with lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

 * A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. ~ Benjamin Disraeli on William Ewart Gladstone
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 09:14, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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January 30

January 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe... No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ~ Winston Churchill
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (born 30 January 1882)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. Faith — in the soundness of democracy in the midst of dictatorships. Hope — renewed because we know so well the progress we have made. Charity — in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. ~ Lloyd Alexander (born 30 January 1924)
 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2011
 * I have marched in many a battle host, but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood. ~ Lloyd Alexander
 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2012
 * The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

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Pissing in your shoes won't keep your feet warm for long. ~ Icelandic proverb
 * 4~preschooler.at.heart
 * 0 Kalki 23:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC) Amusing, but not really great "Quote of the day" material; no tie in for the date, and as I heard it in Newfoundland, rather than Iceland, the proverb actually was "boots" rather than "shoes".
 * 0 Zarbon 19:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Lyle 04:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury — or at least comfort — so there’s a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out. ~ Gregory Benford
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. ~ Gregory Benford
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. ~ Gregory Benford
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it. ~ Gregory Benford
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. ~ Gregory Benford
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 07:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:49, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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March 30

March 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day ~ Alexander Woolcott
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ~ Vincent van Gogh (born 30 March 1853)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. ~ Archilochus
 * in honor of the 2006 solar eclipse
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. ~ Maimonides
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. ~ Vincent van Gogh (born 30 March 1853)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. ~ Vincent van Gogh
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. ~ Seán O'Casey
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * But my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. ~ Vincent van Gogh
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2012
 * We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man. ~ Maimonides
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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 * DOB: Eric Clapton · Julian Grenfell · Maimonides · Seán O'Casey · Vincent van Gogh · Paul Verlaine

The enemy knows that he must wipe out our fighters. Once he has done that, he will be able to play football with the German people. ~ Erhard Milch (born March 30)
 * 3 because it is a great comical gesture. Very well formulated. Zarbon 04:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 22:16, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. ~ Vincent van Gogh (born March 30) (Question: Is there a better way to suggest a quote than to add it by clicking on the "edit" link so the time stamp and the name of the person suggesting a quote also shows? And how to vote on suggestions?)
 * I have added a signature of your username to your suggestion. Despite liking this statement, I believed the attribution dubious when I first encountered it in recent years — but had not gotten around to even beginning to sufficiently investigate it for early sourcing until now. The ultimately unsourced attribution to Van Gogh seems to have only become common in recent years, and the earliest attribution I have yet located occurred in the 1990s. Prior to that, for many years, at least since 1908 a nearly identical remark was attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. I will attempt to further investigate the history of the attributions in the coming day — and modify the Van Gogh page accordingly. In place of the dubious attribution I am suggesting another by Van Gogh that I have just now sufficiently sourced to his published letters. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:04, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:53, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

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April 30

April 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ~ Robert J. Hanlon
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 30 April 1777)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 30 April 1777)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ Jack Valenti (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ~ Larry Niven
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance — embracing all opposites. ~ Taisen Deshimaru
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ Adolf Hitler (died April 30)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

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

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by kletos

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. ~ Adolf Hitler (died April 30)
 * 3 because one's willpower serves as a strong device for motivation, even when short of artillery. It is a magnificent source of attaining courage even in the darkest hour of the battle. Zarbon 06:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC) I hold that to even consider Hitler a spokesman for freedom in any admirable way is disgusting and contemptible. The type of "freedom" Hitler stood for was the freedom to oppress, the freedom to lie, the freedom to murder, and no matter how bold and brazen a liar and oppressor might be, or how strong they may become because of the will of other fools and cowards and the lack of will among many other fools and cowards, they are ultimately in many extreme ways craven fools and cowards themselves, who are afraid to speak, to hear, or to allow others to hear or to speak many important truths.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss (born April 30)
 * 2 because those who are truly determined will unlock the beauty of science. Zarbon 14:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Think with your whole body. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

You have to practice until you die. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 11:43, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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May 30

May 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole... I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ~ Mikhail Bakunin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010 :
 * If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. ~ Joan of Arc (died 30 May 1431, birthdate unknown)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011 :
 * No one can want to destroy without having some idea, true or false, of the order of things that should, according to him or her, replace what presently exists. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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…

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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born May 30)
 * 3 because, as the quote implies, the image of God has been used to enslave many people, instill heavy belief, and target religions against each other. This quote is very true, because more negative has come from religious fanaticism instead of positive. The belief in itself makes all living beings susceptible to feeling as if they are slaves to one master, the creator, so to speak. This image is well painted by Bakunin in this single quote, regardless of whether or not I agree with it. Zarbon 05:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:19, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
 * 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 — a great tribute to a great piece of music.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:19, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

And when you're out there Without care, Yeah, I was out of touch But it wasn't because I didn't know enough I just knew too much ~ Crazy - Cee-Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley)
 * 3 Zarbon 14:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:19, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Well, I think you're crazy I think you're crazy I think you're crazy Just like me ~ Crazy - Cee-Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley)
 * 3 Zarbon 14:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:19, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC) 0. I didn't realize that this quote was already used. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 23:06, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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July 30

July 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Charles Babbage
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. ~ Emily Brontë ~ (born 30 July 1818)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Just being alive It can really hurt. These moments given Are a gift from time. Just let us try To give these moments back To those we love To those who will survive. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I don't know you, And you don't know me. It is this that brings us together. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.  ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * With wide-embracing love Thy Spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above, Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. Though earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.  There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou —THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed. ~ Emily Brontë ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

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''The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again. - Elvis Presley -'' Interview (March/April, 1972)
 * 3 --Revera 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC) (30 July 1954 was the date Elvis Presley made his debut as a public performer).
 * 2 Zarbon 15:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:47, 28 July 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss? ~ Kate Bush
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

''You and me on the bobbing knee. Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read! I will come home again, but not until The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.'' ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

''How I'm moved. How you move me With your beauty's potency.'' ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

My terrible fear of dying No longer plays with me, for now I know that I'm needed For the symphony. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even a 4 eventually.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but more likely than not there is much by Kate Bush I will long find preferable.

Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier.. . . This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of us don't really know this one. ~ In commemoration of the 30 July 1920 birth of Marie Tharp, from the ninth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC) if honoring Tharp, would prefer to quote her or at least a quote specifically about her.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

title: July 30


text:
August 30

August 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ Mary Shelley (born 30 August 1797, and also relating to the recent landfall of Hurricane Katrina
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ Mary Shelley (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ Mary Shelley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The animals of the Burgess Shale are holy objects — in the unconventional sense that this word conveys in some cultures. We do not place them on pedestals and worship from afar. We climb mountains and dynamite hillsides to find them. We quarry them, split them, carve them, draw them, and dissect them, struggling to wrest their secrets. We vilify and curse them for their damnable intransigence. They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something. ~ Stephen Jay Gould
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2010
 * If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ~ Warren Buffett
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The Muslim Anarchist Charter rejects absolutely: all forms of violence and political coercion; all forms of racism and prejudice, including Islamophobia, homophobia and neurelitism. ~ Yakoub Islam ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by bystander
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

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

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
My mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation. ~ Mary Shelley (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value. ~ Warren Buffett
 * 2 Zarbon 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ Ernest Rutherford (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. ~ Ernest Rutherford (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don’t think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it’s all marvelous fun. ~ Molly Ivins
 * 2 bystander (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 02:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

The nucleus is very small compared to  the rest of the  atom. If an atom were the size of this cathedral, its nucleus would be the size of that mote of dust. ~ In commemoration of the 30 August 1871 birth of Ernest Rutherford, from the sixth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:36, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:48, 29 August 2017 (UTC) — I would prefer a quote by Rutherford to honor Rutherford — or even a quote specifically about him.

title: August 30


text:
September 30

September 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. ~ William Blake
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Helen Schucman
 * proposed by Kalki, and used on this date, because this had become attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (born 30 September 1207); the attribution was later corrected on 2007·09·30.

 * 2006
 * Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel (born 30 September 1928)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. ~ Rumi ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent. ~ Rumi ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There is a certain cloud, impregnated with a thousand lightnings. There is my body — in it an ocean formed of His glory. All the creation, All the universes, All the galaxies, Are lost in it. ~ Rumi ~
 * 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 Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ Elie Wiesel
 * used 27 August 2004,

 * When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ Elie Wiesel
 * used 26 November 2004

 * The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel

 * used 10 December 2006

Suggestions
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. ~ Shintaro Ishihara (date of birth)
 * 3 LordAmeth 18:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 2 — most parties are thrown away anyway, when that is clearly the case; others survive only in name and mutate in aim because people find their familiar names useful.

The great victories are never won in the first blow. ~ Johan Falkberget
 * 4 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) I cannot find an actual published source for this, in either the provided English or Norwegian forms, and until one is found I don't think it should be acceptable as a QOTD.

I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career... I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. ~ Aleksandr Vasilevsky
 * 3 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) but would extend this to:
 * I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting. ~ William Stoughton
 * 2 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * 3 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

''Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.'' ~ Rumi ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

title: September 30