March 29
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov (recent death)
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. ~ Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ Stanisław Lem (recent death)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- I have been all men known to history,
Wondering at the world and at time passing;
I have seen evil, and the light blessing
Innocent love under a spring sky.
~ R. S. Thomas ~- selected by Kalki
- 2008
- I have known exile and a wild passion
Of longing changing to a cold ache.
King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns,
Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind’s treason;
Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen,
Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart’s need.
~ R. S. Thomas ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
[edit] Suggestions
Perhaps, the 29th being the day on which the last American troops withdrew from South Vietnam, this quote by William Westmoreland, the threatre commander, could be considered:
"It's not that we lost the war militarily. The fact is that we as a nation did not make good our commitment to the South Vietnamese."
- —This unsigned comment is by Jb17kx (talk • contribs) . [Suggestion made at 2007-03-29 03:32:07 (UTC) — the selection for 2007 had already been made at that time.]
I am like a tree,
From my top boughs I can see
The footprints that led up to me. ~ R. S. Thomas
- 3 because the imagery of comparison here is comfortable...the ideology of growth and experience to that of the tree and the struggle to get to the top, from the roots to the branches, so to speak. A sustainable foundation in the train of thought. Zarbon 05:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
