April 13
2004
- Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson (born 13 April 1743 (N.S.))
- selected by Kalki
2006
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- selected by Kalki
2007
- The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ Christopher Hitchens
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson (bprn April 13, 1743)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism — free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence ~ Thomas Jefferson- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- This was already used on 21 December 2003. ~ Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea. ~ Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere. ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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The fact is that serious trials and fearless investigations often are the cause of great division, and rightly so. ~ Christopher Hitchens (born April 13, 1949)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about. ~ Christopher Hitchens
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of. ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker. ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Let us do something while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! ~ Samuel Beckett
- 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- 3 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- 3 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- 3 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 15:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
~ Seamus Heaney
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
~ Seamus Heaney
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. ~ Guy Fawkes
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC) (although it is likely he was quoting or paraphrasing a remark of Hippocrates.)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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Over the mountains,
And over the waves,
Over the fountains,
And under the graves;
Over the floods that are deepest,
Which do Neptune obey;
Over the rocks that are steepest,
Love will find out the way.
~ Thomas Percy
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. ~ Garry Kasparov
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2. Would not include the first two words. - InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky. ~ Garry Kasparov
- 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC) (others are credited with similar remarks)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
- 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
- 4 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~ Eudora Welty
- 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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