September 24
2003
- Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ William Penn
- selected by Kalki
2005
- I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain — Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896, and correlation to the current period of powerful storms)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ Horace Walpole
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ John Brunner (born 24 September 1934)
- proposed by Ningauble
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Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- used 21 December 2008, proposed by UDScott
Suggestions
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. ~ John Marshall- 2 Zarbon 04:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ Horace Walpole (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 19:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~ John Brunner (born September 24, 1934)
- 3.5 ~ Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Ningauble 15:57, 23 September 2009 (UTC) - 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is ... If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty. ~ John Marshall
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) An important quote, but maybe not for this context
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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty. ~ Horace Walpole
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ~ Horace Walpole
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ~ Horace Walpole
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. ~ John Brunner
- 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines. ~ John Brunner
- 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) rather downbeat for QotD
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You have many years to live — do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. ~ John Brunner
- 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) Nice and pithy, but not very original (and little heeded by youth)
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