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Talk:Julian of Norwich

Dates of her visions
The current article says that her visions occurred on 13-14 May, 1373, but I have yet to find an authoritative reference that agrees with these dates. The closest I've come is an Encyclopedia Britannica profile that says 13 May was the end of the illness during which her visions occurred, which means that they had to happen before the stated dates (or at least no later than 13 May). I found a University of St. Thomas course webpage on her, written in first-person, that says, "God came to me on May 13, 1373 with “showings” or “revelations” that brought with them complete healing." This seems to be taking literary license with the material, so I have doubts of its attention to accuracy. The Roman Catholic Church commemorates her on 13 May, but I haven't found an explanation of whether it's because that's when they peg the date(s) of her visions or what. (The Anglican Church commemorates her on 8 May, again with no explanation that I've found. Perhaps this is the start of her illness, or of her visions?) Does she perhaps make the timing clear in Revelations of Divine Love? I would appreciate any citable source for information that anyone can provide. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:55, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It has been some time since I last read Julian and created the article, and I don't recall all the details of the visions and her sickness that I had gathered, but she does state in Chapter 2 of the primary translation used here: "These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May." and if I am remembering right, the final vision she gave any description of was after the most extensive ones, and I think it occured the morning after her illness broke. ~ Kalki 14:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Date of Julian of Norwich's Revelations
There are two major manuscripts of the "Long Version" of Julian's book: one in the British Museum and the other the Paris Library. One of these MSs gives the date of her revelations on "viii May" and the other on "xiii May" _- obviously one scribe made a mistake between an "x" and a "v".

However, I have researched Julian for six years, and have found evidence (too detailed to account here) that the May 13 date is very probably the accurate one - in spite of the commemoration on May 8 in the Church of England and the Episcopal Church. Also, Julian is NOT included in the Roman Catholic Calendar.

Fr. John-Julian, OJN Founder: The Order of Julian of Norwich Author: "A Lesson of Love: The Revelations of Julian of Norwich" and "The Complete Julian" -

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May 13

May 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~ William Faulkner
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It behoved that there should be sin — but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ~ Julian of Norwich (her famous visions occurred on 13 May 1373)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * "Fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water'" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (born 13 May 1937)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ Washington Irving (Mother's Day U.S., Canada)
 * proposed by Jimmy McManus

 * 2008
 * Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsaara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. ~ Stephen Colbert (born May 13, 1964)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Always dying, never dead; Ever ending, never ended; Loathed in darkness, Clothed in light, He comes, to end a world, As morning ends the night. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love. ~ Julian of Norwich
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
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 * 2013

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 * 2014

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 * 2015

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 * 2016

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 * 2017

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 * 2018

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 * 2019

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 * 2020

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 * 2021

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 * 2022

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 * 2023

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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Feast Day of Julian of Norwich in Roman Catholic traditions, and the anniversary date of her visions.
 * DOB: Georges Braque · Roger Zelazny

I made a great discovery. I don't believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, except that there is a harmonious relationship among them, and also between them and myself. When one reaches this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual void. This was everything becomes possible, everything becomes legitimate, and life is a perpetual revelation. This is true song. ~ Georges Braque (born 1882-05-13)
 * 3 Aphaia
 * 3 Kalki 00:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, for the sourced version listed by InvisibleSun below
 * 1 Zarbon 05:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3. This quote was unsourced. I sourced it and replaced the unsourced version in the article. The quote now reads: "I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry." My vote is then for the sourced quote. - InvisibleSun 07:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:50, 27 November 2010 (UTC) This is solipsistic mush.
 * Actually I would say it is just the opposite of solipsism — it is a negating of much of the the ego perception, rather than an idolization of it. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:10, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:18, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

He played tune after forbidden tune, and the professional musicians put professional expressions of scorn upon their faces; but beneath the table several feet were tapping in slow time with the music. ~ Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light
 * 3 Kalki 20:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:23, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

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July 13

July 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others — that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (responding to the subway bombings of 7 July 2005)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day, And empty shadow of what is to be; Yet cheated Hope on future still depends, And ends but only when our being ends. ~ John Clare ~ (born 13 July 1793)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. ~ Kenneth Clark
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. ~ Kenneth Clark
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower And stick it to my breast — words can't reveal; But there are souls that in this lovely hour Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel. ~ John Clare ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~ Kenneth Clark
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ Julius Caesar
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. ~ Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Star Wars IV: A New Hope
 * Harrison Ford born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:01, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I would also go for something from Indiana Jones, if anyone would choose something as recognizable. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:28 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:01, 12 July 2005 (UTC) Good quote, but I prefer the Jedi view on things...
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 10:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC). Concur with Kalki.
 * 2 Here's a nice Star Wars quote but I still feel there are lots of better, more elegant and charming dark side quotes that haven't been used, by Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and Grand Moff Tarkin, to name a few. Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. ~ John Jacob Astor IV (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

Serve the classes, live with the masses. Serve the masses, live with the classes. ~ John Jacob Astor IV (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself. ~ Julius Caesar (born July 13)
 * 3 and this is something that defines powerful characteristics. Fear nothing and success is but definite. I love this quote. Zarbon 06:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I remain dubious as to the authenticity of this attribution, as I can only find internet sources ascribing it or its Latin version to Julius Caesar, and no earlier published sources which do so. ~ Kalki 22:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 pending better sourcing, if any. InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) Julius Caesar
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:38, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

title: July 13


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August 13

August 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that. ~ Frank Hague

 * 2004
 * Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Romain Gary

 * 2005
 * I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. ~ Lucy Stone (born 13 August 1818)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Make the world better. ~ Lucy Stone (born 13 August 1818)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thy self. ~ Felix Adler (born 13 August 1851)
 * proposed by Kalki,

 * 2008
 * It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient. ~ Felix Adler
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence. ~ Felix Adler
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock (born 13 August 1899)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone. ~ Felix Adler
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
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 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Kick the baby! ~ Kyle Broflovski, South Park, debuted that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 AllanHainey 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 19:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC) Perhaps not entirely unacceptable within the context of satire, but probably a bit over the brink for a quote of the day.
 * 0 Zarbon 15:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 19:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC) per Kalki.

My first wife was a great housekeeper. She kept both houses. ~ David Feherty (Irish-American golf personality, born in August 13, 1958.)
 * 3 --Pajicz (talk) 12:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC) Some humor in contrary to all those serious, philosophical quotes.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 21:39, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

title: August 13


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September 13

September 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ William Drummond of Logiealmond
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ~ Judith Martin, widely known as "Miss Manners" (born 13 September 1938)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * What I need is a good defense 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal And I need to be redeemed To the one I've sinned against Because he's all I ever knew of love. ~ Fiona Apple ~ (born 13 September 1977)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ Roald Dahl
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ~ Alexander Pope, in his interpretation of The Odyssey by Homer
 * proposed by Kalki (in relation to the legendary date of the dedication of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)

 * 2010
 * Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. ~ Sherwood Anderson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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, in regard to the Friday the 13th full Harvest Moon of this year.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki; in relation to the legendary date of the dedication of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC: Zeus/Jupiter speaking, in Sartre's play The Flies.

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President, the country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number. ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, RD was born this day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason — you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. ~ Desiderius Erasmus (The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) briefly ranked this a 4 in 2009, but kept options open for any better quotes on Jupiter or the temple, which I eventually found.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thous seest, it does not leave me yet. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
 * 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. ~ Henry Fountain Ashurst (born September 13, 1874)

 * 2 Kalki 00:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

To the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar. Graves at my command, Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth, By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music — which even now I do, — To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. ~ William Shakespeare in The Tempest ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauties, orient deep These flow'rs, as in their causes, steep. ~ Thomas Carew ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Where is the key that locked these gates of speech, Once beautiful, where thought stood sentinel, Where sweetness sat, where wisdom passed, to teach Our weakness strength, our homage to compel? ''Despoiled at last, and waste and barren lies This once so rich domain. Where lives and moves, In what new world, the splendor of these eyes That dauntless lightened like imperial Jove's?'' ~ Celia Thaxter ~
 * 3 Kalki 00:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book — When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

"Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them." ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring. All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. One of the things he NEVER NEVER was allowed to do, the most exiting of them all, was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night … You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses. ~ Sherwood Anderson
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

title: September 13


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October 13

October 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. ~ Linus Torvalds
 * selected by IP 68.227.198.159

 * 2004
 * Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Forgive us the breach of positive commands and negative commands, whether or not they involve an act, whether or not they are known to us. ~ Liturgy for Yom Kippur (begins the night of the 12th)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies because you have not had it done with all of the careful rules that have developed in a court of law. Press and television rely on freedom. Those who rely on freedom must uphold the rule of law and have a duty and a responsibility to do so and not try to substitute their own system for it. ~ Margaret Thatcher (born 13 October 1925).
 * proposed by David

 * 2007
 * I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. ~ Doris Lessing (recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. ~ Martti Ahtisaari (recent winner of the Nobel Peace prize of 2008)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. ~ Albert Jay Nock (born 13 October 1873)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * In every civilization, however generally prosaic, however addicted to the short-time point of view on human affairs, there are always certain alien spirits who, while outwardly conforming to the requirements of the civilization around them, still keep a disinterested regard for the plain intelligible law of things, irrespective of any practical end. They have an intellectual curiosity, sometimes touched with emotion, concerning the august order of nature; they are impressed by the contemplation of it, and like to know as much about it as they can, even in circumstances where its operation is ever so manifestly unfavourable to their best hopes and wishes. ~ Albert Jay Nock
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Get up in one of our industrial centres today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in. ~ Albert Jay Nock
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence. ~ Paul Simon ~
 * used 19 February 2007, proposed by Kalki

 * And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sound of silence." ~ Paul Simon ~
 * used 19 February 2009, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word! ~ Margaret Thatcher
 * 3 because this is very powerful, a gesture of determination, blind from failure. Zarbon 03:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3-4 representative of her attitude to life and politics. MurielMary (talk) 09:20, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth. ~ Margaret Thatcher
 * 3 because praying only goes so far, one must still fight here on soil for profit. Zarbon 03:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3-4 represents one of her core values, the work ethic. MurielMary (talk) 09:20, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. ~ Margaret Thatcher
 * 3 because this is true. For every truly honorable idealist, there's at least one who is willing to take advantage of those ideals for exploitation purposes. Zarbon 03:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

If the answer is infinite light, why do we sleep in the dark? ~ Paul Simon
 * 4 because darkness compels and relaxes. Darkness soothes and creates serenity. Therefore, it is an answer just as light, if not an answer moreso. Zarbon 05:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:24, 12 October 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 12:15, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. ~ Albert Jay Nock
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget. ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met. ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away. ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I 've wandered east, I 've wandered west, Through mony a weary way; But never, never can forget The luve o' life's young day! ~ William Motherwell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Mournfully, oh, mournfully, The midnight wind doth sigh, Like some sweet plaintive melody Of ages long gone by. ~ William Motherwell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! ~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 12:15, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 07:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

The State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation — that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class — that is, for a criminal purpose. ~ Albert Jay Nock
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 12:15, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you. ~ Albert Jay Nock
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

''Trust your intuition. It's just like goin' fishin'. You cast your line and hope you get a bite. But you don't need to waste your time worrying about the marketplace, try to help the human race. Struggling to survive its harshest night.'' ~ Paul Simon ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

''Once upon a time there was an ocean. But now it's a mountain range. Something unstoppable put into motion. Nothing is different, but everything's changed.'' ~ Paul Simon ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

"The universe loves a drama," you know. And ladies and gentlemen this is the show. ~ Paul Simon
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I'm on my way, I don't know where I'm goin', I'm on my way, I'm takin' my time, but I don't know where. ~ Paul Simon ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n

No I would not give you false hope On this strange and mournful day But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away ~ Paul Simon ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC); most of the as yet unused remainder of a quote I first proposed in 2009, the first portion of it now used for QOTD.

 * Some days my thoughts are just cocoons—all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the gray woods of my mind;And other days they drift and shine—such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings. ~ Karle Wilson Baker
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 07:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

title: October 13


text:
November 13

November 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously. And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet. ~ Muhammad
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo, (born 13 November 354)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ Louis Brandeis (born November 13, 1856)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~ Louis Brandeis
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Zarbon
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * used 9 December 2003, selected by Kalki

 * Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * used 12 June 2004, selected by Kalki

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * used 10 January 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~ Augustine of Hippo born that day

 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, born that day.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (born November 13, 1850)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. ~ Louis Brandeis (born November 13, 1856)
 * 3 Kalki 00:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

How many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * 3 Kalki 03:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. ~ William Shenstone
 * 3 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason. ~ William Shenstone
 * 3 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical. ~ William Shenstone
 * 4 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 3 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 3 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 2 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 2 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 2 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~ Antonio Porchia
 * 2 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 3 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 2 Zarbon 12:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Charity is the root of all good works. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 3 Kalki 01:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 3 Kalki 22:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:01, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:37, 24 April 2013 (UTC) The word "fuck" spoken for the first time on British television on this date, by Tynan, on 'BBC-3 (13 November 1965), with a slight lean toward 4 for the 50th anniversary of the event in 2015.
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 10:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:27, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:41, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. ~ Augustine of Hippo
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 16:34, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC); with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

title: November 13


text:
December 13

December 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! ~ Anne Frank
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come. ~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. ~ Kofi Annan, elected Secretary General of the United Nations on this date, in 1996.
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2007
 * Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine (born 13 December 1797)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. ~ George Pólya (date of birth)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. ~ George Pólya (date of birth)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going. ~ Emily Carr
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 23:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC) link to date no longer strong.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

They that won't be counselled, can't be helped. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 1. No stated relevance for this day. InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were broken? Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's hand? Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous music of war? ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 12 December 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world... I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life. ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

O my love there are larks in our morning And the finding flame of your hands And the moss on the bank of the river And the butterflies And the whirling-mad Butterflies! ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. ~ Aga Khan IV
 * 3 Zarbon 05:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 3 for a living enemy is more deadly than one that is gone. Zarbon 05:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Might give this a 2 or even a 3 eventually, though I don't actually agree with it, in the normal interpretations of the words used.
 * 1 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 4 because after the initial act, one may be stunned as to how they lived through it. Whatever "it" is characterized by, I assume any difficult and strenuous task may be applied into the equation. Zarbon 05:05, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) I might rank this higher in the future.
 * 1 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

''What! Think you that my flashes show me Only in lightnings to excel? Believe me, friends, you do not know me, For I can thunder quite as well.'' ~ Heinrich Heine ~
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean towards 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:18, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

title: December 13


text:
January 14

January 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ Æschylus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. ~ Albert Schweitzer (born 14 January 1875)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ~ Robert Anton Wilson (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. ~ Yukio Mishima (born 14 January 1925)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * In my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase, Reverence for Life, struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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 — the concluding lines of the article of Impeachment voted on a few hours ago.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another. ~ Benedict Arnold (born January 14)
 * 3 because this is a perfect example of one trying to gain redemption for one's own betrayal. Beautiful. Zarbon 16:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Morning of America - Page 209 by Frank Joseph Klingberg - United States - 1941
 * 2 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Humanity is my temple, and I am its worshiper. The disabled are my supreme God, and I am their grace seeker. ~ Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya (born 14 January 1950)
 * Proposed by Vibhijain
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

O the omnipotent Lord, the remover of the distress of your worshippers! Protect me, who is being consumed by the extremely dreadful fire of sorrows, who is helplessly falling in the ocean of the mundane world, who is without any protector, who is ignorant, and who is bonded by the shackles of delusion. ~ Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya (born 14 January 1950)
 * Proposed by Vibhijain
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:26, 6 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Makar Sankranti is fraught with implications for the early phases of the agricultural cycle. It is a time to pray for a prosperous growing season and a good future harvest, and a time to bathe one's cows, so essential to all aspects of agricultural production. It is a time to remember ancestors and, in the evenings, to celebrate around bonfires. - Constance A. Jones
 * 3. --Nvvchar (talk) 00:51, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or 4. I had strongly considered this, and had actually begun thinking on layouts for it soon after it was suggested, but there is not yet a page for this author here, and I didn't have time to start one, and came to prefer the one by Albert Schweitzer for this year. I actually retained one of the images from the layouts I had considered for this one in the Schweitzer layout, and would probably still like to use that with other images for this one, perhaps next year.

 * 3.-- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:32, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3.-- ო ~ #SheSaid 08:32, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

title: January 14


text:
February 14

February 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
 * selected by Kalki : quote on love for Valentine's Day, from a story about "Valentine Michael Smith"

 * 2006
 * Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss. ~ Rob Thomas (born 14 February 1972)
 * proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald

 * 2007
 * When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.  ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. ~ William Shakespeare in Sonnet 116 ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one. ~ Edith Sitwell ~
 * 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

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom. ~ E. W. Kenyon
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC) ( with a lean toward 4, though there is not yet a page for this author, I would probably attempt to make one before using this.)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 4

For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love! - John Donne
 * 3 Poetlister 22:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

There really is only one question about the future of civilization: Which is stronger love or hate? If the answer is hate we are all doomed. Anonymous
 * 3 --Patriot8790 08:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC) this seems to be a user comment, rather than a quote.

True friends tell us: “If you ever need anything, I’ll be there.” True love tells us: “You’ll never need anything; I’ll be there.” Jimi Hollemans

 * 0 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC) unsourced quote : at this point neither the authorship nor the notability Holemans is clear.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.
 * Simon Pegg (Born Feb 14)

 * 0 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:48, 13 February 2011 (UTC), as this is as yet unsourced, it would be acceptable if provided with some sourcing.

If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate—in short, emancipation of fear—then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render. ~ Max Horkheimer (Born 1895 Feb 14)
 * 4 bystander 22:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC) I know, it's Valentine's Day, but I'm sick of all the Valentine's.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC) I would probably rank this higher, if it were not Valentine's Day, as I am not sick of the holiday sentiments.

Six minutes and 20 seconds with an AR-15, and my friend Carmen would never complain to me about piano practice. Aaron Feis would never call Kyra "miss sunshine," Alex Schachter would never walk into school with his brother Ryan, Scott Beigel would never joke around with Cameron at camp, Helena Ramsay would never hang around after school with Max, Gina Montalto would never wave to her friend Liam at lunch, Joaquin Oliver would never play basketball with Sam or Dylan. Alaina Petty would never, Cara Loughren would never, Chris Hixon would never, Luke Hoyer would never, Martin Duque Anguiano would never, Peter Wang would never, Alyssa Alhadeff would never, Jamie Guttenberg would never, Jamie Pollack would never. Since the time that I came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting, and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape, and walk free for an hour before arrest. Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job. ~ Emma González, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor, at March for Our Lives in Washington D. C. on March 24, 2018
 * 4 on anniversary of shooting JessRek6 (talk) 20:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC); I much prefer quotes more generally applicable to St. Valentine's Day, but I could see myself eventually ranking this a 3, or perhaps even a 4, but only in particularly sombre periods of some years.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lead toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. ~ James Cook
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

title: February 14


text:
March 14

March 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. ~ Albert Einstein (born 14 March 1879)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~ Albert Einstein (born 14 March 1879)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; — World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire's glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * This is the date of Pi Day, and a quote explicitly related to π was particularly apt in 2015: on that date of 3/14/15 the time at 9:26:53 corresponded to 3.141592653 — π to 9 decimal places. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡

Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try; He has offered his bow for the game. But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why. ~ Harold Monro
 * 4 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I am a mighty Garage, On the corner of the Square, And it is all my pleasure, To provide a quick repair, Or I can do your service, In the blinking of an eye, I wouldn't say it's thorough, But it'll get you by. ~ Pam Ayres
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

The lesson is that dying men must groan; And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear. ~ John Wain
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~ John Wain
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming- The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 2.5 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC) Difficult without context for "our inspiration"
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising; They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which they are going: But on one man's soul it hath broken, A light that doth not depart; And his look, or a word he hath spoken, Wrought flame in another man's heart. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC) in relation to π day.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC) in relation to π day.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

title: March 14


text:
April 14

April 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell (born 14 April 1879)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Good Friday 2006)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist... It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever... Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." ~ Kurt Vonnegut (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. … But you, I think, have always comprehended this. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not. ~ James Branch Cabell ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. Alien they seemed to be; No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history,  Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event,  Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.  ~ Thomas Hardy ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki, and selected for use on Good Friday 2017.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, for JBC's DOB and Palm Sunday 2019.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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…

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

 * It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * used 3 March 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Now, the redemption which we as yet await … will be that of Kalki, who will come as a Silver Stallion: all evils and every sort of folly will perish at the coming of this Kalki: true righteousness will be restored, and the minds of men will be made as clear as crystal. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * Used 29 July 2014, proposed by

 * Is it not a pity, Guivric, that this Kalki will not come in our day, and that we shall never behold his complete glory? I cry a lament for that Kalki who will someday bring back to their appointed places high faith and very ardent loves and hatreds; and who will see to it that human passions are in never so poor a way to find expressions in adequate speech and action. Ohé, I cry a loud lament for Kalki! The little silver effigies which his postulants fashion and adore are well enough: but Kalki is a horse of another color. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * Used 29 July 2015, proposed by

 * Whether or not it was a coincidence, Jurgen met precisely the vampire of whom he had inveigled his father into thinking. She was the most seductively beautiful creature that it would be possible for Jurgen's father or any other man to imagine: and her clothes were orange-colored, for a reason sufficiently well known in Hell, and were embroidered everywhere with green fig–leaves. "A good morning to you, madame," says Jurgen, "and whither are you going?" "Why, to no place at all, good youth. For this is my vacation, granted yearly by the Law of Kalki —" "And who is Kalki, madame?" "Nobody as yet: but he will come as a stallion. Meanwhile his Law precedes him, so that I am spending my vacation peacefully in Hell, with none of my ordinary annoyances to bother me." "And what, madame, can they be?" "Why, you must understand that it is little rest a vampire gets on earth, with so many fine young fellows like yourself going about everywhere eager to be destroyed." ~ James Branch Cabell
 * Used 29 July 2016, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

A life which does not go into action is a failure. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones. ~ Horace Bushnell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. ~ Horace Bushnell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths. ~ Horace Bushnell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion. ~ Horace Bushnell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The world is my country, science is my religion. ~ Christiaan Huygens
 * 4 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:12, 12 April 2010 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) but only in revised form, and as yet very tenuously for that: the earliest and only published citation I can find attributing such a statement to Huygens is in The Making of Modern Europe, 1648-1780 (1985) by Geoffrey Treasure, p. 474 where it is declared that his "motto" was "The world is my country, to promote science is my religion" but this seems very similar to the much more famous and long attested declaration of Thomas Paine: "The world is my country, and to do good is my religion."

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ~ John Holt
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:29, 10 April 2011 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or perhaps an eventual 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. ~ John Holt
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever. ~ François Duvalier
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Bullets and machine guns capable of daunting Duvalier do not exist. They cannot touch me... I am already an immaterial being. ~ François Duvalier
 * 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

If you have been yourself you cannot reasonably be punished, but if you have been somebody else you will find that this is not permitted. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

It was The Cream of the Jest which first made for me in the seventeenth year of my writing, a few warm friends who but a little later were to fight in my behalf very nobly, and with wholly heroic tenacity... If few writers have met with more smug, more prurient, or more disingenuous opponents, no writer whatever, I think has found more faithful allies. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I consider the saga of no lord of the Silver Stallion to be worth squabbling over. Your sagas in the end must all be perverted and engulfed by the great legend about Manuel. No matter how you strive against that legend, it will conquer: no matter what you may do or suffer, my doomed Guivric, your saga will be recast until it conforms in everything to the legend begotten by the terrified imaginings of a lost child. For men dare not face the universe with no better backing than their own resources; all men that live, and that go perforce about this world like blundering lost children whose rescuer is not yet in sight, have a vital need to believe in this sustaining legend about the Redeemer: and the wickedness and the foolishness of no man can avail against the fond optimism of mankind. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

There is no gift more great than love. ~ James Branch Cabell
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

 * No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo

 * 2 witty, and has a point about desires and the impossibility of knowing yourself. Nemo 14:10, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so. ~ James Branch Cabell, Figures of Earth
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4

Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes, as I believe, that one of the most distinctive characteristics of Man is the he is partially free to make choices.... Encounters are the occasions in human life on which freedom and creativity come into play and on which new things are brought into existence. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee (goodreads.com)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Don't become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish. ~ Bruce Sterling born April 14, 1954
 * 4 HouseOfChange (talk) 11:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

title: April 14


text:
May 14

May 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

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

 * 2005
 * If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life — that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment — that would be the perfect state. ~ Cate Blanchett (born 14 May 1969)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. ~ Robert Owen (born 14 May 1771)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family — and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~ Frank Sinatra (died on 15 May 1998)
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2008
 * Errors now almost universally exist, and must be overcome solely by the force of reason; and as reason, to effect the most beneficial purposes, makes her advance by slow degrees, and progressively substantiates one truth of high import after another, it will be evident, to minds of comprehensive and accurate thought, that by these and similar compromises alone can success be rationally expected in practice. For such compromises bring truth and error before the public; and whenever they are fairly exhibited together, truth must ultimately prevail. ~ Robert Owen
 * initially proposed by Aphaia, extended form proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Union and co-operation in war obviously increase the power of the individual a thousand fold. Is there the shadow of a reason why they should not produce equal effects in peace; why the principle of co-operation should not give to men the same superior powers, and advantages, (and much greater) in the creation, preservation, distribution and enjoyment of wealth? ~ Robert Owen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour? ~ Robert Owen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * What ideas individuals may attach to the term "Millennium" I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal. ~ Robert Owen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:48, 13 May 2024 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 13 May 2023 (UTC); with a strong lean toward 4.

title: May 14


text:
July 14

July 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. ~ Ingmar Bergman (born 14 July 1918)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ Ingmar Bergman
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking my freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land is made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie ~ (born 14 July 1912)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine … don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place. ~ Woody Guthrie
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island, From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters, This land was made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom. ~ André Malraux
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2011
 * I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed had I to turn to a General and rule men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship. ~ Buenaventura Durruti
 * 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 for Bastille Day 2017.

 * 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…

Suggestions
I have always admired [Ingmar Bergman], and I wish I could be a equally good filmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience. ~ Steven Spielberg. Ingmar Bergman was born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The Only Church That Illuminates Is A Burning Church. ~ Buenaventura Durruti
 * 3 Zarbon 02:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0; the attribution of this to Durruti is dubious.
 * 3 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:50, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:50, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

title: July 14