December 22
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Good fortune attend each merry man's friend
That doth but the best that he may,
Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs
To drive the cold winter away.
~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~
Traditional 17th century English carol- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot (died 22 December 1880)
- proposed by UDScott
- 2006
- It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
- proposed by InvisibleSun
- 2007
- The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.
~ Kenneth Rexroth ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
[edit] Suggestions
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. ~ Kenneth Rexroth (born December 22, 1905)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
