Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ~ William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra
- 2005
- It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli (born 3 May 1469)
- 2006
- Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ Pete Seeger (born 3 May 1919)
- 2007
- The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. ~ Pete Seeger
- 2008
- The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
- 2009
- To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven.
~ Pete Seeger ~
- 2010
- No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
- 2011
- It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? . . . Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~ Golda Meir (born 3 May 1898)
- 2012
- Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
- 2013
| It's up to you whether or not you want to do work with no contract. I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because what we're motivated by is not money. We're motivated by a need to express ourselves and to get our ideas out. That's the motivation. It turns out that when people like it they frequently will support you if you give them a means, but this is not a contract.
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| ~ Nina Paley ~
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- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
| The corporations that hold these copyrights are media companies that also control most of the new media that comes out. Estimates vary, but it's said that 98 percent of all culture is unavailable right now because of copyrights. So the reason they hold the copyrights isn't because they want to get paid, it's because they don't want all the old stuff competing with the media stream that they control now.
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| ~ Nina Paley ~
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- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
Copying is not theft
Stealing a thing leaves one less left
Copying it makes one thing more
That's what copying's for.
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| ~ Nina Paley ~
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- 2022
Every single one of you, whether you like it or not, is a bastion of democracy. And if you ever begin to doubt your responsibilities. If you ever begin to doubt how meaningful it is, look no further than what's happening in Ukraine. Look at what's happening there. Journalists are risking and even losing their lives to show the world what's really happening.
You realize how amazing it is. Like in America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable. Even if it makes your viewers or readers uncomfortable. Do you understand how amazing that is?
I stood here tonight and I made fun of the President of the United States, and I'm going to be fine. — I'm going to be fine, right?
Like, do you really understand what a blessing it is? Maybe it's happened for so long that you — it might slip your mind, it's a blessing.
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| ~ Trevor Noah ~
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- 2023
- proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.
- 2024
To be my royal bodyguard, go you
Straightway into the leafy places, where
Greenwoods have grown in nature's way and not
From a man's sowing.
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| ~ Gnaeus Naevius ~
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- 2025
- 2026
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| Audiences want to support artists. Which is pretty much how it's always been except during the last 100 years where it's turned into this really vicious, cutthroat, nasty business with all these blood-thirsty, parasitic middle-men. But historically, artists were relatively poor and supported directly by their audiences.
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| ~ Nina Paley ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
| A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| When you shut down neurons to prevent them from transmitting signals, we call that "brain damage." Copyright is brain damage. It's brain damage in the great mind, and it's brain damage in the individual mind.
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| ~ Nina Paley ~
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| Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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| ~ Steven Weinberg ~
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- 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 19:11, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
| It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| t is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| Oo all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers. ... Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| There are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| When neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways. It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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| Men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.
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| ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~
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