February 17
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ Anonymous
- selected by Sasha
- 2005
- There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. ~ Giordano Bruno (died 17 February 1600)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan (born 17 February 1963)
- proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald
- 2007
- Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life. ~ Giordano Bruno (executed 17 February 1600)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
It's there that my heart is calling
All for the love of you.
~ Loreena McKennitt ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ Giordano Bruno
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ Giordano Bruno
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence. ~ Giordano Bruno
- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
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Ranking system:
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- 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
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
~ Alexander Pope
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- proposed by Adriboy6
- 1 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Nice quote but I don't see the connection to this day.
Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over which it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter through the influence which the former exert over the latter's minds. That influence may be exerted through orders, threats, persuasion, or a combination of any of those. ~ Hans Morgenthau (born 1904 Feb 17)
- 3 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
