August 30
2004
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- selected by Kalki
2005
- No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ Mary Shelley (born 30 August 1797, and also relating to the recent landfall of Hurricane Katrina
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ Mary Shelley (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ Mary Shelley
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
- The animals of the Burgess Shale are holy objects — in the unconventional sense that this word conveys in some cultures. We do not place them on pedestals and worship from afar. We climb mountains and dynamite hillsides to find them. We quarry them, split them, carve them, draw them, and dissect them, struggling to wrest their secrets. We vilify and curse them for their damnable intransigence. They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something. ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- proposed by 121a0012
2010
Suggestions
My mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation. ~ Mary Shelley (date of birth)- 3 Kalki 23:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 16:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. ~ Warren Buffett
- 2 Zarbon 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ~ Warren Buffett
- 2 Zarbon 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffett
- 4 Zarbon 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value. ~ Warren Buffett
- 2 Zarbon 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner. ~ Warren Buffett
- 3 Zarbon 02:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:22, 21 August 2009 (UTC) but either trimmed of the first sentence to eliminate unspecified declarations, or extended to include them.