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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 November, 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.

1

"There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums." ~ Larry Flynt, born that day.
3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

If there is a witness to my little life,
To my tiny throes and struggles,
He sees a fool;
And it is not fine for gods to menace fools. ~ Stephen Crane (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. ~ Stephen Crane (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Damn I wish I was your lover
I'll rock you till the daylight comes
Make sure you are smiling and warm.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Like a flower I need the rain
Though it's not clear to me
Every season has it's change
And I will see you
When the sun comes out again.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

2005 : I am everything —
Tonight I'll be your mother — I will
Do such things to ease your pain —
Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)

4 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

2

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" ~ Arthur Balfour, in a letter sent that day.
3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:18, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. ~ Marie Antoinette (date of birth)

3 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

I put on my rouge and wash my hands in front of the whole world! ~ Marie Antoinette (date of birth)

3 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ Marie Antoinette (date of birth)

4 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

3

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate." ~ Ulysses S. Grant, became president that day.
~
3 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.. ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)

3 Kalki 18:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)

3 Kalki 18:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)

3 Kalki 18:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians. ~ Wilhelm Reich (date of death)

3 Kalki 18:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

2005: Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
~ Judy Garland as "Dorothy Gale" in The Wizard of Oz ~

First proposed in the form: "Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." ~ The Wizard of Oz, first shown on TV that day
~
4 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

4

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Isaac Newton
~
2 Kalki 16:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC) A great statement, but I don't know of anything linking it to this particular date.
- I had been inclined to use this all the same, because it was a great quote, but a last minute double-check revealed it already had been used... in January of this year. ~ Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

People often ask me, 'Will, where do you get your jokes?' I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : After looking at mothers-in-law and seeing sons-in-law — I always felt that the jokes were on the wrong ones. No sir, you can look through everything I ever did write or say, and you never did hear me tell a joke about any mother-in-law — or any creed, color or religion, either. ~ Will Rogers (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

5

"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do." ~ Susan B. Anthony, voted (against the law) that day
3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."~ Susan B. Anthony, voted (against the law) that day

3 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.~ Will Durant (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty." ~ Will Durant (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. ~ Will Durant (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. ~ Will Durant (date of birth)

4 Kalki 23:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

6

2005 : An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." ~ Mohandas Gandhi, arrested that day.

7

"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn." ~ The Rebel by Albert Camus, born that day.

~

3 Kalki 00:13, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

You stand in front of a million doors,
Each one holds a million more. ~ Kate Bush ~ (2005: international release date of her first album in 12 yrs)

3 Kalki 00:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : I found a book on how to be invisible —
On the edge of the labyrinth —
Under a veil you must never lift —
Pages you must never turn —
In the Labyrinth. ~ Kate Bush ~ (2005: international release date of her first album in 12 yrs)

3 Kalki 00:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

8

2005 : Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy elected as US President this day.

9

2005 : If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ Carl Sagan born that day

0 65.91.14.191 17:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- I believe that the current guidelines limit voting to registered users...but in any case, especially voting 1 and below, it is highly encouraged to add a reason: do you feel the quote is offensive? of limited interest? inaccurate? inappropriate for the day but might be good for another day? ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

10

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" ~ Henry Morton Stanley, uttered that day

If my dream was true, then everything we know, everything we think we know is a lie. It means the world's about as solid and as reliable as a layer of scum on the top of a well of black water which goes down forever, and there are things in the depths that I don't even want to think about. It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored. ~ Neil Gaiman (date of birth)

3 Kalki 20:03, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. ~ Neil Gaiman (date of birth)

4 Kalki 20:03, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

11

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." ~ Abigail Adams, born that day

"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." ~ Yasser Arafat, died that day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

-John McCrae, poem written during World War I, recited during Remembrance Day Ceremonies on Nov 11, normally in countries from the 'then British Empire'.

4 ~ If the whole poem is deemed too long, perhaps only the second and/or final paragraphs should be used. I don't think this has been used before. --(Person who suggested the quote but is not a registered user.)
3 ~ Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC) (for portions of this, not the whole poem)

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (date of birth)

3 Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. ~ George S. Patton, born that day

~
4 ~ Kalki 23:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

12

"I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming." ~ Colin Powell, resigned that day.

"Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations." ~ Bahá'u'lláh, born that day

"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." ~ Harry Blackmun, born that day

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ Bahá'u'lláh (date of birth)

2005 : Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. ~ Bahá'u'lláh (date of birth)

13

"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

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, born that day.

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 that day

14

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago —never mind how long precisely —having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation." ~ Moby-Dick, published that day in the United States (in 1851; but first published on October 18 in England).

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth)

Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth)

2005 : The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth)

15

"Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed." ~ Plato, the order to put homosexuals in concentration camps in Nazi Germany went out that day.

2005 : Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
~ William Cowper ~ (date of birth)

16

2005 : From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ Robert Nozick, born that day

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. ~ Alan Watts (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

17

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~ Thomas Jefferson, in honor of the NRA being granted charter in NYC
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

"Note to self: religion: freaky." ~ What's My Line (Part One), Buffy (shown that day)
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ~ Martin Scorsese (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

18

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." ~ George Bernard Shaw, said that day, when refusing the money from the Nobel prize.
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

War is what happens when language fails. ~ Margaret Atwood (date of birth)

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ Margaret Atwood (date of birth)

Do not let the bastards grind you down. ~ Margaret Atwood (date of birth)

2005 : We're all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ Alan Moore in Watchmen (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

19

2005 :In a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ~ Abraham Lincoln

originally proposed by MosheZadka in the form: "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." ~ Abraham Lincoln, gave the Gettysburg Address (from which this quote is taken) that day
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

20

"Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why." ~ Nadine Gordimer, born that day
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

The facts are always less than what really happened. ~ Nadine Gordimer (date of birth)

3 Kalki 21:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ Nadine Gordimer (date of birth)

3 Kalki 21:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : The Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ Nadine Gordimer (date of birth)

4 Kalki 21:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

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I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (one of two possible dates of birth - uncertainties exist on the matter)

3 Kalki 16:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Men are equal; it is not birth
But virtue that makes the difference. ~ Voltaire (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so. ~Voltaire (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Virtue supposes liberty, as the carrying of a burden supposes active force. Under coercion there is no virtue, and without virtue there is no religion. Make a slave of me, and I shall be no better for it. Even the sovereign has no right to use coercion to lead men to religion, which by its nature supposes choice and liberty. My thought is no more subject to authority than is sickness or health. ~ Voltaire (date of birth)

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : We must believe in free will — we have no choice. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer (one of two possible dates of birth - uncertainties exist on the matter)

4 Kalki 16:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

22

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." ~ John F. Kennedy, shot this day
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ George Eliot

3 Kalki 21:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

"May I reach that purest heaven, — be to other souls the cup of strength in some great agony, enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, beget the smiles that have no cruelty, be the sweet presence of a good diffused, and in diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible whose music is the gladness of the world." ~ George Eliot

3 Kalki 21:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues. ~ George Eliot

4 Kalki 21:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

23

"There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today." Another Day from Rent, movie comes out today
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ Areopagitica by John Milton, published this day

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

24

"People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there." Freddie Mercury in an interview, died that day
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, published that day

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

25

All human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities. ~ Ben Stein (date of birth)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. ~ Upton Sinclair (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. ~ Upton Sinclair (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior. ~ Ba Jin (date of birth)

3 Kalki 00:54, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. ~ Ba Jin (date of birth)

4 Kalki 00:54, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

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2005 : If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~ Charles M. Schulz (date of birth)

4 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion. ~ Bruce Lee (date of birth)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. ~ Bruce Lee (date of birth)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket. ~ Bruce Lee

3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ Bruce Lee

3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ Bruce Lee

3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. ~ Bruce Lee

4 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~ Washington Irving (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ~ Washington Irving (date of death)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. ~ Enrico Fermi (date of death)
4 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.  ~ William Blake (date of birth)

3 Kalki 21:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly. ~ William Blake (date of birth)

3 Kalki 21:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake (date of birth)

3 Kalki 21:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

2005 : A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ William Blake (date of birth)

4 Kalki 21:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

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

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ~ C.S. Lewis (date of birth)
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott (date of birth)
2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

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

3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

30

2005 : Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. ~ Mandy Patinkin (b. 30 Nov 1952) as "Iñigo Montoya" in The Princess Bride

3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:20, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
3 ~ Kalki 16:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC) already a classic, and I would include the introductory "Hello." before "My name is..." as well.
3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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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