December 3

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ Mark Twain

• selected by Basil Fawlty

2004

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ Emma Goldman

• selected by Kalki

2005

All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent (born 3 December 1857)

• proposed by UDScott

2006

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

Suggestions

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)

• 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• This one was used in July 2004 ~ Kalki 00:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ~ Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930)

• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.

• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.

• 4. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. ~ Joseph Conrad

• 3 Kalki 21:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ Joseph Conrad

• 3 Kalki 21:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

• 2 Zarbon 04:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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