June 19
2004
- I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ Kelly Ripa
- suggested by IP 66.157.63.6
2005
- True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? ~ Pauline Kael
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- The wellspring of courage and endurance in the face of unbridled power is generally a firm belief in the sanctity of ethical principles combined with a historical sense that despite all setbacks the condition of man is set on an ultimate course for both spiritual and material advancement. At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ~ Pauline Kael (born June 19, 1919)- 3 InvisibleSun, 1 June 2006
- 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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I loved writing about things when I was excited about them... It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different. ~ Pauline Kael
- 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The recurrence of certain themes in movies suggests that each generation wants romance restated in slightly new terms, and of course it’s one of the pleasures of movies as a popular art that they can answer this need. ~ Pauline Kael
- 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable ~ Pauline Kael
- 2 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC) - 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 because beauty is found only in the original product. Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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Knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
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Is it not proven beyond all dispute that there is no limit to the enormities which men will commit when they are once persuaded that they are keepers of other men's consciences? To spread religion by any means, and to crush heresy by all means is the practical inference from the doctrine that one man may control another's religion. Given the duty of a state to foster some one form of faith, and by the sure inductions of our nature slowly but certainly persecution will occur. To prevent for ever the possibility of Papists roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse which it has cast upon the world be blotted out for ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon (born 19 June 1834)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. ~ Charles Spurgeon
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. ~ Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947)
- 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. ~ Salman Rushdie
- 3 Kalki 23:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
* 4 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)with very strong lean toward 4.