December 19
2004
- In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ Ovid
- selected by Kalki
2005
- The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Brontë (died 19 December 1848)
- proposed by UDScott
2006
- It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ~ Phil Ochs (born 19 December 1940)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2007
- In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs
- proposed by Kalki
2008
Suggestions
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. ~ Emily Brontë (Date of death)- 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 12:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders
but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers
and a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember
So please be reassured, we seek no wider war,
we seek no wider war.
~ Phil Ochs
- 3 InvisibleSun 12:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone
And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone
Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
~ Phil Ochs
- 3 InvisibleSun 12:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 19:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" ~ Charles Dickens
- 3 InvisibleSun 16:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC) [proposed originally at 7 February on Dickens birthdate, added here by Kalki]
- 3 Kalki 23:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
~ Wallace Stevens ~
- 4 Kalki 01:23, 11 December 2008 (UTC) A perfect excuse to use one of my all-time favorite quotes by Stevens (or anyone else, for that matter), with the release date for Yes Man starring Jim Carrey — a movie which has its roots in the statement of a mysterious stranger who once told Danny Wallace to "Say Yes more." It also fits in well as a progression with last year's "In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty" by Phil Ochs, and what seems the likely choice for the 18th : "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die" by Steve Biko.
- 3 Zarbon 05:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)