December 29
2004
- I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- selected by Kalki
2005 & 2006 (mistakenly used twice)
- If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson (born 29 December 1808)
- proposed by UDScott
2007
- For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ Pablo Casals
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
Suggestions
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (Date of death)- 3 ~ UDScott 15:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - --inhuman14 11:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- 2 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 15:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 20:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Yes, the springtime was in need of you. Often a star
waited for you to espy it and sense its light.
A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past,
or as you walked below an open window,
a violin gave itself to your hearing.
All this was trust. But could you manage it?
Were you not always distraught by expectation,
as if all this were announcing the arrival
of a beloved?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
- 3 Kalki 15:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone (born December 29, 1809)
- 4 InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 20:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order; the firmest foundations for the development of individual character; and the best provision for the happiness of the nation at large. ~ William Ewart Gladstone
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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I care not what happens when I am dead and gone. ~ Madame de Pompadour
- 2 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ~ Mary Tyler Moore
- 3 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
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Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful. ~ Ritsuko Okazaki
- 3 Zarbon 06:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
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