April 28
2004
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- selected by Kalki
2005
- It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ Terry Pratchett (born 28 April 1948)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ Karl Kraus (born 28 April 1874)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ Terry Pratchett
- selected by Kalki
2008
- The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ Terry Pratchett
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. ~ Terry Pratchett in Sourcery ~
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Quotes by people born on this day, already used as QOTD:
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus
- used 29 June 2004, selected by Kalki
Suggestions
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ~ Karl Kraus- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. ~ Karl Kraus
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is is made beautiful by this embrace. ~ Karl Kraus
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC) (I have modified this from its current listing on the Kraus page, because I believe this form makes more sense. We have at least about a year to check out which is more accurate depiction of the German original.)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
2 pending resolution of this form of the quote. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)- 3 InvisibleSun 23:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. ~ Terry Pratchett
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 4 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. ~ Heinrich Müller (born April 28)
- 2 Zarbon 17:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
1. The quote is unsourced and should therefore be avoided as a QOTD choice. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)- 1 InvisibleSun 23:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- SOURCE: The SS, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945 - Page 33 by Gerald Reitlinger - History - 1989 (I can provide sources for all the quotes if they are necessary)
- 1 Kalki 02:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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Let us not allow disorder enter where order prevails. ~ António de Oliveira Salazar (born April 28)
- 2 Zarbon 04:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
1. The quote is unsourced and should therefore be avoided as a QOTD choice. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)- 1 Kalki 02:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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If you knew how hard it is to command, you would only want to obey. ~ António de Oliveira Salazar (born April 28)
- 2 because most of the time, it is best to follow orders. Zarbon 06:14, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 02:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0.
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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. ~ Saddam Hussein
- 3 Zarbon 03:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 02:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 23:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)