October 14

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October 14

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ Joseph Joubert

selected by Kalki

2005

love is the every only god ~ E. E. Cummings (born 14 October 1894)

proposed by Kalki

2006

I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ Muhammad Yunus (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006)

proposed by Kalki

2007

There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. ~ Al Gore

proposed by Kalki

2008

[edit] Suggestions

Let's bounce, Tigger! ~ Roo, on Winnie the Pooh (date of publication)

2 (if anyone added more fun quotes to the article, I'd probably vote for them) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. ~ William Penn (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another. ~ William Penn (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any. . ~ William Penn (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. ~ William Penn (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 however, this is extremely biased, but it is perceptive. I live for the ideology of the soldier. Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

All of us have heard this term 'preventative war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
4 because principles are extremely important. Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all) ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The whole truth… sings only —and all lovers are the song ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)

3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ~ Hannah Arendt (born 14 October 1906)

3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ~ Hannah Arendt

4 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

In God we trust, all others bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming, date of birth

3 ~ UDScott 16:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 17:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning. ~ W. Edwards Deming, date of birth

3 ~ UDScott 16:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 17:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

We are seeking our own authenticity, and we will find it because we wish, in the innermost fibers of our being to discover it. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)

2 Zarbon 04:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)

3 because this is a nice personification. I personally like the toad as an animal, but the attribution here is negative, committing the eagle to high standards and the toad to that of the lower. And true as the quote says, the eagle soars as a chief, unscathed and untouched by those below. Zarbon 04:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- SOURCE: Political Reform in Francophone Africa By John Frank Clark, David E. Gardinier - page 246

When you are a soldier, either you surrender or you are killed. But you don't flee. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)