August 22
2003
- I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- selected by Kalki
2005
- By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
- proposed by MosheZadka
2006
- No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it. ~ Claude Debussy (born 22 August 1862)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
- Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ Claude Debussy
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ~ Dorothy Parker- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC) (just for the extreme case of irony)
- 3 I hadn't heard of her anyway but assume she's well known. AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 04:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC) I'd prefer something else by her.
- 1 Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
- 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. ~ Dorothy Parker
- 3 Kalki 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- 2 because I strongly dislike dogmatism. Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
- 3 Kalki 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- 3 because one who has some experience can actually understand better than one who thinks of theories and has no experience whatsoever...this is actually something I've been trying to stress for a very long time but most people don't seem to understand. Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. ~ Claude Debussy (born 22 August 1862)
- 3 Kalki 15:46, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
- 3 Zarbon 05:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC) But would prefer to either trim off the "For" at the start of the quote, or extend it for more context.
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
- 3 Zarbon 05:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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