December 29
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- selected by Kalki
- 2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
- If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson (born 29 December 1808)
- proposed by UDScott
- 2007
- For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ Pablo Casals
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2009
- If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Date of death)
- proposed by UDScott
- 2010
- Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone (born December 29, 1809)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
- 2011
- Yes, the springtime was in need of you. Often a star
waited for you to espy it and sense its light.
A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past,
or as you walked below an open window,
a violin gave itself to your hearing.
All this was trust. But could you manage it?
Were you not always distraught by expectation,
as if all this were announcing the arrival
of a beloved?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 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.
[edit] Suggestions
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order; the firmest foundations for the development of individual character; and the best provision for the happiness of the nation at large. ~ William Ewart Gladstone
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 20:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I care not what happens when I am dead and gone. ~ Madame de Pompadour
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ~ Mary Tyler Moore
Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful. ~ Ritsuko Okazaki
