August 1
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2003
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle
- selected by Nanobug
- 2004
- Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by Carl Jung
- selected by Kalki
This is a translation of the Latin phrase Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present." or sometimes "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2006
- And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh, oh — You were the first one.
Oh, oh — You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
~ The Buggles ~- proposed by Jeff Q
- 2007
- People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ Ingmar Bergman (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
[edit] Suggestions
A man to thrive must keep alive.
- 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 0 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
~ The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
- first song played on MTV, (1 August 1981)
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 3 Jeff Q (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
