August 5
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2003
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
- selected by Nanobug
- 2004
- Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
- proposed by Jeffq
- 2006
- Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2007
- There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy de Maupassant (born 5 August 1850)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
[edit] Suggestions
Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. ~ Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her apartment that day
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 ~ Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know. ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man. ~ Isaac Watts (poem used by Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", who was born this day)
3 Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)This has now already been used on 17 July 2006. ~ Kalki 15:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)- 1 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
'Tis true, my form is something odd
but blaming me, is blaming God,
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
~ Joseph Merrick ~ (born 5 August 1862)
