January 9
2004
- Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ Spider Robinson
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ Karel Čapek (born 9 January 1890)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ Karel Čapek (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ Simone de Beauvoir (born January 9, 1908)- 3 InvisibleSun 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 18:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ~ Joan Baez
- 2 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now. ~ Joan Baez
- 2 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation. ~ Richard Nixon
- 4 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force. ~ Richard Nixon
- 3 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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Just as we respect the right of each nation to determine its own future, we also recognize the responsibility of each nation to secure its own future. ~ Richard Nixon
- 3 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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