March 9
2004
- People often say to me, "I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it," and I am apt to reply, "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it." ~ Alan Watts
- selected by Kalki
2005
- When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin (born 9 March 1934)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ Dana Reeve (recent death)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ Mickey Spillane (born 9 March 1918)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ Mickey Spillane
- selected by Kalki
2009
- A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ Shashi Tharoor
- proposed by Zarbon
2010
Suggestions
You can figure things out as quickly as I can, but you haven't got the ways and means of doing the dirty work. That's where I come in. You'll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I'll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. That is, if you can shove me aside. I don't think you can. ~ Mickey Spillane- 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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You have to be quick, and you have to be able, or you become one of the devoured, and if you can kill first, no matter how and no matter who, you can live and return to the comfortable chair and the comfortable fire. But you have to be quick. And able. Or you'll be dead. ~ Mickey Spillane
- 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. ~ Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964)
- 3 Kalki 00:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC) I might rank this a 4 if a definite published source can be found for it.
- 1 Zarbon 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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I looked and looked but I didn't see God. ~ Yuri Gagarin
- 3 because sometimes God need not be found by eyes, even when floating in outer space, through the eyes of an astronaut. Zarbon 15:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 15:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ~ William Cobbett (born 9 March 1763), Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)
- 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. ~ William Cobbett, Political Register, XLVI, pp. 513-514 (May 31, 1823)
- 3 UDScott 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. ~ Luis Barragán
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ~ Luis Barragán
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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With that she dasht her on the lippes,
So dyed double red:
Hard was the heart that gave the blow,
Soft were those lips that bled. ~ William Warner (birth unknown/date of death)
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with. ~ David Smith
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. ~ Bobby Fischer
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! ~ Yuri Gagarin
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination. ~ Shashi Tharoor
- 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Mum, I know you're always there
To help and guide me with all your care,
You nursed and fed me and made me strong
To face the world and all its wrong. ~ Bobby Sands
- 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
That thought that says 'I'm right!' ~ Bobby Sands
- 4 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. ~ Vita Sackville-West
- 3 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. ~ Vita Sackville-West
- 2 Zarbon 05:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 07:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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