September 2
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- proposed by MosheZadka: First public use of the phrase by Roosevelt in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair (2 September 1901)
- 2006
- Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ Salma Hayek
- proposed by Kalki
- 2007
- There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget (born 2 September 1852)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
[edit] Suggestions
Vietnam is a country, not a war ~ Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
- 3 - for Vietnamese National Day. LordAmeth 18:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire... We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. ~ Samuel Pepys (diary entry, September 2, 1666, the first day of the Great Fire of London)
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 22:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC) 2 as it stands, but I would rank it a 3 if it were trimmed to the most essential line: "We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it."
- 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? ~ Paul Bourget
The forests have taught man liberty. ~ Paul Bourget
