July 31
2003
- History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ Lorenz Hart (a Blue moon occurred on 31 July 2004)
- selected by Kalki
2005
- I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. ~ J. K. Rowling, (born 31 July 1965)
- proposed by MosheZadka
2006
- I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ Milton Friedman (born 31 July 1912)
- proposed by AllanHainey
2007
- In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. ~ Primo Levi
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism. ~ Primo Levi
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual. ~ Primo Levi
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2010
Suggestions
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: "to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away." ~ Primo Levi- 3 InvisibleSun 08:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. ~ Primo Levi
- 3 InvisibleSun 08:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful. - Primo Levi
- 3 Matchups 15:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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Intolerance is inclined to censor, and censorship promotes ignorance of the arguments of others and thus intolerance itself: a rigid, vicious circle that is hard to break. ~ Primo Levi
- 3 InvisibleSun 08:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 19:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. ~ J. K. Rowling
- 2 Kalki 22:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC) Very significant line of the Harry Potter series, but no strong desire to use it this year.
- 1 Zarbon 14:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Agree with Kalki--would someone like to research the HP timeline and identify the (future) year when this line takes place, and maybe we should plan to use it then. Matchups 15:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with Matchups and Kalki; this line occurs in the Potter universe on the 1st September, 2017 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Harry_Potter_series)
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