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We are still developing the new procedures for selecting quotes of the day. This page is for quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of July, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made for quotes that relate to notable current events. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page: List of historical anniversaries.

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
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1

"We're on a mission from God.", Elwood, The Blues Brothers, one of w:Dan Aykroyd most important films, Dan was born on July 1

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (I think there are other, better known quotes from that movie even if that's the source we choose to honor. July 1 is also Canada Day, which to me would suggest something from Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, or Mordecai Richler instead—but I don't know these authors well enough to choose an examplar.)

With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee. ~ "O Canada"

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 30 June 2005 04:54 (UTC)

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 04:54 (UTC)

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 04:54 (UTC)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 04:54 (UTC)

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible." ~ Gottfried Leibniz (date of birth)

  • 2 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:03 (UTC)

"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting." ~ Gottfried Leibniz (date of birth)

  • 2 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:03 (UTC)

2005: "We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times." ~ "Sir Humphrey" on European unity, in the comedy series Yes, Minister

Initially proposed as dialogue:

  • As 1st of July is the day Britain takes over the presidency of the EU I suggest
  • Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?
    Jim Hacker: That's all ancient history, surely.
    Sir Humphrey: Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing (the EEC) up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times.

~ Yes Minister "The Writing on the Wall", First aired 24 March 1980

    • 4 very accurate especially in view of recent EU developmentsAllanHainey June 27, 2005 11:33 (UTC)
  • 3 121a0012 June 28, 2005 02:38 (UTC) (But it needs to be properly formatted as dialogue, and should include the name of the episode and the year in which it aired.)
  • AllanHainey June 28, 2005 08:16 (UTC) done
  • 1 This currently leads in the rankings, but it is quite a long bit of dialogue. If it is to provide the quote of the day, I believe it would be best to use most of the first statement of Sir Humphrey or most of his last, as I think dialogue should generally be avoided. ~ Kalki 30 June 2005 20:25 (UTC)
"Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?" ~ "Sir Humphrey" in Yes, Minister
OR
"We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times." ~ "Sir Humphrey" on European unity in Yes, Minister
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2

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.", Ernest Hemingway, born that day

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
  • This quote has already been used as a quote of the day, in January of this year. Also, Hemingway's birthday is actually the 21st of July; he died on the 2nd.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ~ Hermann Hesse

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 05:42 (UTC)

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

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 05:42 (UTC)

2005: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. ~ Hermann Hesse

  • 4 Kalki 30 June 2005 05:42 (UTC)
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3

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:22, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (But italicize title.)
  • 2 A famous line, but still a relatively obscure and simply puzzling statement to many people. ~ Kalki

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:39 (UTC)

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:39 (UTC)

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:39 (UTC)

2005: The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ Franz Kafka (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:39 (UTC)
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4

"There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.", J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 (United States independence)

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:25, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (I'm a bit uncomfortable with this one on this particular day.)
  • 1 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:48 (UTC)
  • 1 Aphaia 3 July 2005 02:27 (UTC) not only problematic, but a bit long.

2005: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ~ United States Declaration of Independence

  • 4 121a0012 June 28, 2005 02:54 (UTC)
  • 4 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:48 (UTC) Though Jefferson's original draft of this statement was used last year, the wording of that was significantly different.
  • 3 Aphaia 3 July 2005 02:27 (UTC)
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5

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.", Elvis Presley, in honor of his first commercial recording

This was already used; it was one of the first quotes of the day, chosen by Nanobug back on August 22 2003. ~ Kalki 4 July 2005 23:29 (UTC)

2005: "From time to time the exceptional is necessary. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors." ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

  • 4 Kalki 4 July 2005 23:29 (UTC) to mark the recent success of the Deep Impact space mission to Comet Tempel 1.
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6

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." George W. Bush, born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 ~ Too many topics around America. A bit bored.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ~ John Paul Jones (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 2 July 2005 22:23 (UTC)

2005: I have not yet begun to fight! ~ John Paul Jones (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 2 July 2005 22:23 (UTC)
  • 3 Aphaia 5 July 2005 02:09 (UTC)
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"There was so much to grok, so little to grok from." Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:38, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (Enh... I think we can do better.)
  • 2 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC) This is actually one of my favorite Heinlein statements, in that it regularly goes through my mind, but "grok" still remains a somewhat obscure term to most people.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

  • 4 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC)

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

  • 3 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC)

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

  • 3 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC)

2005: The more you love, the more you can love— and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

  • 4 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC)
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8

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter#Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), published that day

08:42, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (date of birth)

By the work one knows the workman. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (date of birth)

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 7 July 2005 00:13 (UTC)

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive— to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (date of birth)

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (date of birth)

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (date of birth)

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (date of birth)

--- You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. - William Jennings Bryan delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech this day

---
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. - (Ozymandias of Egypt -1818)Percy Bysshe Shelley died this day

2005: Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (date of birth)

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9

2005: God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. ~ Anne Frank, who went into the infamous attic on July 9th.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:46, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:28 (UTC) good quote by a great author, but I had some reluctance to use it, as I much prefer to use as quotes of the day those that clearly have universal application rather than those that might be perceived as too specific to individuals or groups. The quote by Nikola Tesla I rank most highly to follow this on 10 July 2005 is an example of a more universal assertion upon this same theme.
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10

"Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time." — Lord Kelvin. Nikola Tesla was born that day.

  • 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:59 (UTC) (Surely wtih the likes of Cheryl Wheeler and Arlo Guthrie born on this day, we can do better!)
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:27 (UTC) (Better than Tesla, to whom all people are indebted to? Tesla made mass-use of computers which generate large amount of electricity possible with alternating current. There are not many people who contributed more to humanity than Tesla has, and very few who got as little thanks).
  • 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)
  • 1 Sorry, but bored. Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter— for the future. His duty is to lay foundation of those who are to come and point the way. ~ Nikola Tesla (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)

Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly— not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. ~ Nikola Tesla (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ Nikola Tesla (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC)
  • 3 Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
  • "That's All Folks" - Porky Pig voiced by Mel Blanc who died on this day.

3AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)

  • "Eh... what's up, doc?" - Bugs Bunny by Mel Blanc

3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC) both just so that there is a few to choose from. 2 Without context, it sounds not significant. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed— only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ~ Nikola Tesla (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 8 July 2005 20:09 (UTC) With a more universal application of theme it is a good follow up to the Anne Frank quote which was given no rival for the 9 July 2005 spot.
  • 4 Universal application is important. And it is very thoughtful. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
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"In God we trust, all others must submit an X.509 Certificate" - Source unknown

    • "In God We Trust" was added to the dollar on July 11th
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:51, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (I love this, but I think it may be too esoteric for a general audience.)
    • 1 AllanHainey June 27, 2005 11:37 (UTC) (X.509 don't know what it is but sounds like a USA tax thing - too obscure)
Actually, it's an ITU standard. Your browser almost certainly implements it.

"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." — Mark Twain

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ~ John Quincy Adams (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 22:19 (UTC)

I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ~ John Quincy Adams (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 22:19 (UTC)

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ~ John Quincy Adams (birth date)

  • 4 Kalki 8 July 2005 22:19 (UTC)
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  • "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus died today
  • "In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king" - Erasmus
  • "This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind." - Erasmus

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ Henry David Thoreau (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ~ Henry David Thoreau (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)
  • 3 Aphaia 21:29, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. ~ Henry David Thoreau (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)
  • 3 Aphaia 21:29, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. ~ Henry David Thoreau (birth date)

  • 3 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC)
  • 4 Aphaia 21:29, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby, born that day

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"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...

Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (responding to the recent bombings there)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and powerful, it was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jews, young and old; an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any consideration for age, for castes, for religions, whatever. That isn't an ideology, that isn't even a perverted faith. It is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (responding to the recent bombings there)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Hope on future still depends, and ends but only when our being ends. ~ John Clare (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

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 (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

The riddle nature could not prove was nothing else but secret love. ~ John Clare (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

The ivyed oaks dark shadow falls oft picking up with wondering gaze some little thing of other days saved from the wreck of time. ~ John Clare (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ~ John Jacob Astor IV (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

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)

There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. ~ John Dee (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils. 
~ John Dee (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

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 recent bombings there)

  • 4 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
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"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.

"Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom." ~ André Malraux

  • 1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
  • 3 Aphaia 5 July 2005 06:37 (UTC)

No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. ~ Ingmar Bergman (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:46, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. ~ Ingmar Bergman (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:16, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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 (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 21:16, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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 (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 20:46, 13 July 2005 (UTC) I actually like Bergman's statement about film better, but In the context of recent events and quotes of the day I rank this one higher.
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  • "A king should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination." Napoleon Bonaparte

I ran for governor to find out if the American dream still exists in anyone's heart other than mine. I'm living proof that the myths aren't true. The candidate with the most money isn't always the one who wins. You don't have to be a career politician to serve in public office. ~ Jesse Ventura (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 06:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

There's a great need in our government right now for honesty. I speak my mind. You might not always like what you hear, but you're gonna hear it anyway. I call it like I see it; I tell the truth. And if I don't know something, I'll say so. Then I'll try to find the answer. ~ Jesse Ventura (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 06:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot. ~ Jesse Ventura (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 06:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. ~ Jesse Ventura (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 06:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
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2005: By the declining day, man is a state of loss, save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. - Qur'an Surah 103. July 16th marks the Hijra, the beginnig of Islamic calendar.

It is also the release day of Harry Potter 6, which will have many headlines.

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  • "The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup—in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.", Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory was born that day.
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (OK; markup needs work)
  • 1 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this uses obscure terms without much context to go on; I have added a few Cory Doctorow quotes below, that I think would be better.

First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth. ~ Cory Doctorow

  • 3 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

I’d seen how Imagineering worked when they were on their own, building prototypes and conceptual mockups—I knew that the real bottleneck was the constant review and revisions, the ever-fluctuating groupmind consensus of the ad-hoc that commissioned their work. ~ Cory Doctorow

  • 3 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets—commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.

  • 2 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC) this also uses obscure terms, as the first suggestion did, but fuller context is implied a bit more clearly.

How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower! ~ Isaac Watts

  • 2 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. ~ Cory Doctorow

  • 4 Kalki 22:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.", Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf (published that day)
  • 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 23:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Oops, we have no Thomas Kuhn quote ...

2005: The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Nelson Mandela

    • Birth in this day
  • 3 Aphaia 5 July 2005 06:44 (UTC)
  • 4 Amar 09:46, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 4 Kalki 23:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC) very similar statements are attributed to others, but this particular form seems to be sourced to his autobiography.
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It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary. ~ Edgar Degas (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ Edgar Degas (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working. ~ Edgar Degas (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edgar Degas (date of birth)
  • 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ Otto von Bismarck the Franco-Prussian war which he engineered began on ths day.

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  • "Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." (Armstrong, a few minutes earlier)
  • 3 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
  • 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:30 (UTC) Like this, but...well...it's a cliche and all, but the step quote is, quite possibly, the most recognized quote ever :)

2005 : That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong, quote uttered that day.

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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. ~ Marshall McLuhan (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

The medium is the message. ~ Marshall McLuhan (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ Ernest Hemingway (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

No one thing is true. It's all true. ~ Ernest Hemingway (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
  • You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~ Robin Williams (date of birth)
  • 3 Kalki 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Don't you feel a change a coming from another side of time, breaking down the walls of silence, lifting shadows from your mind. ~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come and I believe it could be, something good has begun. ~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one and I believe it could be, some day it's going to come. ~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss? ~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 13:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

2005 : We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~ Carl Sagan, w:Scopes Trial ends with a guilty verdict on that day.

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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
~ Emma Lazarus ~ (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:12, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

2005:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
~ Emma Lazarus ~ (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 22:12, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 4 121a0012 04:44, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ Raymond Chandler (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. ~ Raymond Chandler (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ~ Raymond Chandler (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ~ Raymond Chandler (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ~ Raymond Chandler, born that day.

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  • "What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?", O. Henry, released from prison that day.
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

2005: Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. ~ John Newton

  • 4 Kalki 22:04, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
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2005:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ (died that day).

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  • Lingvo internacia de la venontaj generacioj estos sole kaj nepre nur lingvo arta. Ludoviko Zamenhof, in honor of w:Unua Libro being published that day.
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:59, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 0 Quotes of the day for en: should be in en unless they are well-known in en literature in their original language (cf. Caesar). 121a0012 15:40, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction." Potsdam Declaration, made this day in 1945
    (Text from Wikisource.)

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  • "An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door opened, Attlee got out." Winston Churchill Clement Attlee became British PM on this day

Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ George Bernard Shaw (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

All great truths begin as blasphemies.. ~ George Bernard Shaw (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.. ~ George Bernard Shaw (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ Carl Jung (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. ~ Carl Jung (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ~ Carl Jung (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. ~ Carl Jung (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 23:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
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  • "Hello Fry, I am...(stops mid-sentence, throws multi-sided dice)...pleased to meet you" (Gary Gygax, born that day, voicing himself on Futurama)
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:02, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 121a0012 June 28, 2005 02:36 (UTC) (I've never seen a single-sided die.)
  • "Quamquam haec severa matromonia." -- Tacitus
    • However there the marriage is serious
  • 3 Aphaia (very personal preference, this day is our marriage day ;-)
  • "Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game." ~ Gary Gygax
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 00:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
  • "The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally." ~ Gary Gygax
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 00:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most. ~ Hilaire Belloc (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 19:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ Hilaire Belloc (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 19:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Of courtesy it is much less than courage of heart or holiness, yet in my walks it seems to me that the Grace of God is in courtesy. ~ Hilaire Belloc (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 19:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ~ Hilaire Belloc (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 19:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
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One man can make a difference and every man should try. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Minimum information given with maximum politeness. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I saw myself in the mirror; my whole face spattered with blood and hair... I wiped it off with Kleenex... History! ... I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done... ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

All things living are in search of a better world. ~ Karl Popper (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ~ Karl Popper (date of birth)

  • 4 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ~ Karl Popper (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. ~ Karl Popper (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith. ~ Karl Popper (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 00:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ~ Karl Popper, born that day, in Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (1972)

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

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that will be: Yes. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

what man calls civilization always results in deserts ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. ~ Don Marquis (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ~ Benito Mussolini (date of birth)

  • 2 Kalki 22:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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

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Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts: unutterably vain... ~ Emily Brontë (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC) (also one of my favorites).

With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. ~ Emily Brontë (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee. ~ Emily Brontë (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? ~ Kate Bush (date of birth - sometimes called "Katemas" by fans)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena. Soul-birds of a feather flock together. ~ Kate Bush (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Stepping out...
To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, Yes... ~ Kate Bush (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

With a kiss I'd pass the key and feel your tongue teasing and receiving. ~ Kate Bush (date of birth)

  • 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

2005: No coward soul is mine, / No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: / I see Heaven's glories shine, / And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. ~ Emily Brontë

As originally proposed:

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere
  • from a poem by Emily Brontë, born that day.
  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:12, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 --Aphaia 3 July 2005 02:25 (UTC)
  • 4 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC) Though I am extremely biased for Kate Bush on this day (or any other) this has been one one of my favorite statements since childhood, and I was actually surprised to find this had not been used as a Quote of the day yet. I had thought it had been used very early in the project, but I was wrong. I feel the completing lines of what actually is a single sentence should also be used here.
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  • "I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible." Milton Friedman born this day

2005: I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. ~ J. K. Rowling, born that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:15, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC) (If we use the HP quote from earlier this month, then this should not be used this year.)

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3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
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