June 23
2004
- Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ Alan Turing (born 23 June 1912)
- proposed by MosheZadka
2006
- We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and — our former riches. ~ Anna Akhmatova (born 23 June 1889)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. ~ KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975)
- selected by Kalki
2008
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ Alan Turing
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
- I've woven them a garment that's prepared
out of poor words, those that I overheard,
and will hold fast to every word and glance
all of my days, even in new mischance,
and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth,
through which a hundred million people shout,
then let them pray for me, as I do pray
for them, this eve of my remembrance day.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past--and when you're seventy, nearly all of you. ~ Jean Anouilh- 3 because the older you get, the more difficult it becomes to forget. Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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It is always the one who reacts who is punished, never the one who provokes. ~ Zinedine Zidane
- 3 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Source: July 12, 2006
- 3 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- 3 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 2 Zarbon 03:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 16:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle — it's just self-interest. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, but more context seems needed.
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I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
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Then, as always, I felt morally obligated to advocate our official position, even when it conflicted with my personal views. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) more context needed.
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I recalled the ants I had watched as a child on the farm, building their hills one grain of sand at a time, only to have them senselessly destroyed in an instant by a passing foot. I'd pieced my life together the same way, slowly and agonizingly. Would it, too, be kicked callously into dust? ~ Clarence Thomas
- 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
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As for the matter of my judicial philosophy, I didn't have one- and didn't want one. A philosophy that is imposed from without instead of arising organically from day-to-day engagement with the law isn't worth having. Such a philosophy runs the risk of becoming an ideology, and I'd spent much of my adult life shying away from abstract ideological theories that served only to obscure the reality of life as it's lived. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 2 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel. ~ Clarence Thomas
- 3 Zarbon 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
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I go forth to seek —
To seek and claim the lovely magic garden
Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
- 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 02:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
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There is no death, each of us knows —
it's banal to say.
I'll leave it to others to explain.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
- 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 02:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
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You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
- 3 Kalki 09:14, 21 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
- 2 Zarbon 02:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
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As a white stone in the well's cool deepness,
There lays in me one wonderful remembrance.
I am not able and don't want to miss this:
It is my torture and my utter gladness.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
- 3 Kalki 00:53, 23 June 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4
- 2 Zarbon 02:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
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