February 26 Quotations

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine! Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage — my affirmation of love and commitment to (my wife) — isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. ~ Wil Wheaton

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2005

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. ~ Victor Hugo (born 26 February 1802)

selected by Kalki

2006

Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ Theodore Sturgeon (born 26 February 1918)

selected by Kalki

2007

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ Victor Hugo

proposed by Kalki

2008

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

proposed by Kalki

2009

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ Victor Hugo

proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!
~ Christopher Marlowe (baptized February 26, 1564)

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France.

A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed! ~ Victor Hugo

4 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization. ~ Victor Hugo

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. ~ Victor Hugo

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~ Victor Hugo

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most infamous of men, would be to swallow up all epics in a superior and final epic. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Logic ignores the Almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Is not every war between men, war between brothers? War is modified only by its aim. There is neither foreign war, nor civil war; there is only unjust war and just war. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
~ Johnny Cash ~ (born 26 February 1932)

2 Kalki 20:19, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. ~ François Arago (born 26 February 1786 )

3 Kalki 20:19, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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