October 28
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. ~ Johnny Damon
- selected by Kalki, Damon, as a Boston Red Sox player the year Boston "reversed" the "Curse of the Bambino" by winning the 2004 World Series.
- 2005
- Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. ~ Jonas Salk (born 28 October 1914)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2006
- The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ Evelyn Waugh (born 28 October 1903)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2007
- I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ Jonas Salk (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
[edit] Suggestions
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. ~ Bill Gates, born that day
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ~ Evelyn Waugh (date of birth)
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom. ~ Evelyn Waugh (date of birth)
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ~ Evelyn Waugh (date of birth)
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. ~ Jonas Salk (date of birth)
The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility. ~ Francis Bacon
- 2 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame. ~ Jigoro Kano
- 3 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. ~ Jigoro Kano
- 3 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
The man who is at the peak of his success, and the man who have just failed are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next. ~ Jigoro Kano
- 2 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Consider fully, act decisively. ~ Jigoro Kano
- 2 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ~ Bill Gates
- 3 Zarbon 05:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
