January 7
2004
- Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
- selected by Kalki
2005
- The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- selected by Kalki
2006
- There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ Gerald Durrell (born 7 January 1925)
- proposed by UDScott
2007
- It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ~ Richard Feynman (speaking of art, reality, and Jupiter, which Galileo Galilei discovered to have moons on this day in 1610)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people. ~ Gerald Durrell (born 7 January 1925)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2010
Suggestions
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. ~ Zora Neale Hurston (born January 7, 1891)- 3 InvisibleSun 09:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 04:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?" To this one can reply "What use is the Acropolis?" Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own. ~ Gerald Durrell
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 04:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings. ~ Gerald Durrell
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 04:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 17:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. ~ Millard Fillmore
- 4 Zarbon 05:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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It is not strange...to mistake change for progress. ~ Millard Fillmore
- 3 Zarbon 05:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Triviaa 04:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before. ~ Millard Fillmore
- 2 Zarbon 05:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. ~ Millard Fillmore
- 3 Zarbon 05:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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