Quote of the day/March
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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 March, 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. The numeric section heading of each date is also a direct link to the Wikipedia list of births, deaths, and other events which occured on that date.
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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2004 : Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ~ John Stuart Mill
2005 : Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ~ Jef Raskin (recent death)
2006 : I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:
But whether this was false or honest dreaming
I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.
~ Richard Wilbur ~ (date of birth)
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2004 : We may afirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
2005 : From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ Dr. Seuss (date of birth)
2006 : Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'" ~ Carl Schurz (date of birth)
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2004 : It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
2005 : Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ Alexander Graham Bell (date of birth)
2006 : In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ Georg Cantor (date of birth)
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2004 : The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. ~ Winston Churchill
2005 : One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. ~ Knute Rockne (date of birth)
2006 : There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
~ George Gamow ~ (date of birth)
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2004 : When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. ~ Dawn of the Dead (by George Romero).
- proposed by IP 172.170.76.22
2005 : The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.' ~ Grace Hopper
2006 : Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. ~ Rosa Luxemburg (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 21:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
HOPE
- Sees the invisible
- Feels the intangible
- Achieves the impossible
- Feels the intangible
- initially proposed on the posting page as "A saying qouted often from memory by my sister (source is unknown)" by Tara 11:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC) (good statement, but I greatly prefer using traceable quotes to anonymous ones for QOTD)
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2004 : The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton
2005 : Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: but only he who sees, takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, and daub their natural faces unaware... ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (date of birth)
2006 : Give thought to life and liberty. ~ Cyrano de Bergerac (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 20:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true. ~ James Allen
- initially proposed on the posting page (without author) by Tara who had "read it off a 'Hallmark e-card" 11:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC) no clear linkage to the date, but the suggestion prompted me to do some research and create a page for James Allen.
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2004 : May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
2005 : Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ~ John Herschel (date of birth)
2006 : Burn all the statutes and their shelves:
They stir us up against our kind;
And worse, against ourselves.
We have a passion — make a law,
Too false to guide us or control!
And for the law itself we fight
In bitterness of soul.
And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose
Distinctions that are plain and few:
These find I graven on my heart:
That tells me what to do.
~ William Wordsworth in "Rob Roy's Grave" ~ (date of Rob Roy's birth)
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2004 : An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ J. D. Salinger
2005 : We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (date of birth)
2006 : The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (date of birth)
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2004 : People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' ~ Alan Watts
2005 : When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin (date of birth)
2006 : Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ Dana Reeve
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2004 : Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
2005 : A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
2006 : All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome." ~ Kate Sheppard (date of birth)
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2004 : To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden. ~ Goethe
2005 : Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ Douglas Adams (date of birth)
2006 : Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ Douglas Adams (date of birth)
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2004 : Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ André Gide
2005 : I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. ~ Jack Kerouac (date of birth)
2006 : Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." ~ Edward Albee (date of birth)
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2004 : The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
2005 : What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ Joseph Priestley (date of birth)
2006 : Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ Hugh Walpole (date of birth)
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2004 : I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller
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 (date of birth)
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 (date of birth)
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2004 : I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ~ Malcolm X
2005 : Beware the ides of March. ~ William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (The Ides of March)
- proposed by IP 84.56.18.77
2006 : Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces." ~ Julius Caesar (date of death)
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2004 : Do not say, 'I follow the one true path of the Spirit,' but rather, 'I have found the Spirit walking on my path', for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~ Khalil Gibran
2005 : If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ~ Richard Stallman (date of birth)
2006 : 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
- proposed by IP 220.233.188.149
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2004 : Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. ~ Margaret Cho
- proposed by IP 172.169.22.135
2005 : I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. ~ Saint Patrick (St. Patrick's feast day/death date)
2006 : Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof." ~ "V" in V for Vendetta (opening date of film)
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2004 : I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ Booker T. Washington
2005 : We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ~ John Updike (date of birth)
2006 : The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. ~ John C. Calhoun (date of birth)
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2004 : Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
2005 : The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ~ Earl Warren (date of birth)
2006 : Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"?
"You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say,
"For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day."
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton ~ (date of birth)
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2004 : Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
2005 : Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ~ Ovid (date of birth)
2006 : The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society." ~ Henrik Ibsen (date of birth)
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2004 : Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ~ Samuel Johnson
2005 : Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. ~ Benito Juárez (date of birth)
2006 : The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ Jean Cocteau (date of birth)
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2004 : Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ Martin Luther King
2005 : Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ~ Marcel Marceau (date of birth)
2006 : As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ Anne Hutchinson (date of banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony}
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2004 : The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ Albert Einstein
2005 : Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm (date of birth)
2006 : Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ Patrick Henry (date of this famous speech)
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2004 : It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ Thomas Paine
2005 : Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of birth)
2006 : With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. ~ William Morris (date of birth)
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2004 : A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
2005 : If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Good Friday)
2006 : A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. ~ Ward Cunningham (11th anniversary of the first wiki)
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2004 : The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ Aldous Huxley
2005 : Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down. ~ Robert Frost (date of birth)
2006 : He acts without contact,
instructs without meeting,
guides without pointing.
Desires do not conflict with Him,
thoughts do not mingle with Him:
His essence is without qualification,
His action without effort.
~ Mansur al-Hallaj ~ (date of death)
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2004 : In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ Aesop
2005 : Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter)
2006 : All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower. ~ Karl Mannheim (date of birth)
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2004 : If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. ~ Epictetus
2005 : A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan
2006 : I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ Buck Owens (recent death)
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2004 : Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
2005 : If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. ~ Eric Idle (date of birth)
2006 : Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ Stanisław Lem (recent death)
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2004 : There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day ~ Alexander Woolcott
2005 : Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ~ Vincent van Gogh (date of birth)
2006 : Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. ~ Archilochus (observations after a solar eclipse)
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2004 : The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ Æschylus
2005 : Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. ~ René Descartes (date of birth)
2006 : When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ Cesar Chavez (date of birth)
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.
