September 9
2003
- What's another word for Thesaurus? ~ Steven Wright
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged — keep on — there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ~ Madeleine L'Engle (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that.
I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all.
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. ~ Leo Tolstoy- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~ Mao Zedong, died this day- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 17:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- 4 because protection by police force and military force is not uncommon and it is truly beautiful in its stature, an enigmatic symbol of political power, something I highly respect with all my being. Zarbon 22:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Lyle Enigmatic? This quote should be moved to Mao's birth date. 17:04, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 23:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 3 InvisibleSun 02:43, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC) I believe that i understand the statement, and like it, but the first portion of it can be confusing; I am not sure this would be the best translation that is available.
- 2 Zarbon 22:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 3 Kalki 23:35, 8 September 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 13:54, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 3 Kalki 04:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
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The law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 3 Kalki 04:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
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As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 3 Kalki 04:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
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One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- 4 Kalki 04:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
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