Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ Elie Wiesel
- 2005
- If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~ Charles M. Schulz (born 26 November 1922)
- 2006
- "Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Why me?" And the voice says, "Nothing personal your name just happened to come up." ~ Charles M. Schulz (born 26 November 1922)
- 2007
- It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. ~ Ellen G. White (born 26 November 1827)
- 2008
- Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
~ William Cowper ~
- 2009
- I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstanding.
If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social — a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ Eugène Ionesco
- 2010
- Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
~ William Cowper ~
- 2011
- Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~ Eugène Ionesco
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
| I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.
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| ~ Eugène Ionesco ~
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- 2015
| Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
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| ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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- proposed by Kalki, for the US Thanksgiving Day 2015, which was established by Lincoln as a national holiday for the last Thursday in November in 1863.
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- proposed by Kalki, in regard to the US Thanksgiving Day.
- 2021
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat
Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
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| ~ William Cowper ~
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- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
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~ William Cowper ~
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You always have a tendency to add. But one must be able to subtract too. It's not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate. That's the way life is. ~ Eugène Ionesco
- 3 Zarbon 03:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
- 2 Antiquary 20:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself. ~ Eugène Ionesco
- 3 Zarbon 03:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Antiquary 20:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Nature is my friend. Life is my philosopher. History is my guide. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
- 2 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Fear is the outcome of weakness, a coward’s friend, an enemy of firmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins the freedom. From his mental prison. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
- 2 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
My comrades whom I loved as my life, my generals who have been fighting along with me shoulder to shoulder, my fighters whom I fostered for several years, When they fall in the battle field my heart bursts. Yet in that grief I do not languish. All these losses add strength to my will towards my ideal. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
- 4 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
| Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
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| ~ Eugène Ionesco ~
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| I remember one day there was a military parade. A lieutenant was marching in front of the palace guards. I can still see him carrying the flag. I was standing beside a peasant with a big fur hat who was watching the parade, absolutely wide-eyed. Suddenly the lieutenant broke rank, rushed toward us, and slapped the peasant, saying, “Take off your hat when you see the flag!” I was horrified. My thoughts were not yet organized or coherent at that age, but I had feelings, a certain nascent humanism, and I found these things inadmissible. The worst thing of all, for an adolescent, was to be different from everyone else. Could I be right and the whole country wrong?
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| ~ Eugène Ionesco ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
| The theater chose me. As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.
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| ~ Eugène Ionesco ~
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| You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. I don’t share this heresy. I’m too afraid! But I put it in a play called This Extraordinary Brothel, in which the protagonist doesn’t talk at all. There is a revolution, everybody kills everybody else, and he doesn’t understand. But at the very end, he speaks for the first time. He points his finger towards the sky and shakes it at God, saying, “You rogue! You little rogue!” and he bursts out laughing. He understands that the world is an enormous farce, a canular played by God against man, and that he has to play God’s game and laugh about it.
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| ~ Eugène Ionesco ~
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