October 1
2004
- When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ Yogi Berra
- selected by Kalki
2005
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ Jimmy Carter (born 1 October 1924)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ Julie Andrews
- selected by Kalki
2007
- Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford (100th anniversary of Ford putting the Model T on the market at a price of US$825)
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ Rufus Choate
- proposed by Zarbon
2010 : Rank or add further suggestions…
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Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin (born October 1, 1914)
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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A book is the only immortality. ~ Rufus Choate
- 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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They were afraid of dying but even more afraid to show it. ~ Tim O'Brien
- 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. ~ Tim O'Brien
- 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC) - 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
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A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why
I tried to fathom nature's laws
From twirling models and schoolroom sketches
Of molecules and parts of atoms,
And nearly believed — but then came quarks,
Bosons, leptons, antiparticles,
Opposite turning mirror images,
Some that perforate the earth,
Never swerving from their certain paths.
I've listened to conflicting views
About the grand and lesser worlds:
A big bang where it all began;
Of curved, ever-expanding space;
Perhaps tremendous whirling yo-yos
That will someday reach the end
Of cosmic gravity and then
Fly back to where they can restart
Or cataclysmically blow apart —
And then, and then the next event.
And is that all an accident?
~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
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I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
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For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
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When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
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We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth — one for every five-hundred Americans … We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities — not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people, or whether extremist doctrines, the manipulation of the truth, will define America's role in the world. At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul. But I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe, as I always have, the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. ~ Jimmy Carter
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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