# August 8

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2003

    A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane
   * selected by Nanobug

## 2004

    It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ Tertullian
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ~ Paul Dirac (born 8 August 8 1902)
   * proposed by 121a0012

## 2006

    Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ Emiliano Zapata (born 8 August 1879)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. ~ Sara Teasdale ~ (born 8 August 1884)
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2008

    If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2009

    If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2010

    No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ~ Shirley Jackson (in The Haunting of Hill House; died 8 August 1965)
   * proposed by Jeff Q

## 2011

    Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing From the immense blue circle of the sea, And the soft thunder where long waves whiten — These were the same for Sappho as for me.Two thousand years — much has gone by forever, Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men — But here on the beaches that time passes over The heart aches now as then. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.
* ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn ~
   * proposed by Fossil

## 2013

* In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite!
* ~ Paul Dirac ~
   * proposed by Jeff Q

## 2014

* Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.
* ~ Jimmy Wales ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests. … Let us be understood. If the Japanese surrender after the destruction of Hiroshima, having been intimidated, we will rejoice. But we refuse to see anything in such grave news other than the need to argue more energetically in favor of a true international society, in which the great powers will not have superior rights over small and middle-sized nations, where such an ultimate weapon will be controlled by human intelligence rather than by the appetites and doctrines of various states. Before the terrifying prospects now available to humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only goal worth struggling for. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments — a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason.
* ~ Albert Camus ~
   * proposed by Kalki, for 70th anniversary of this published reaction of Albert Camus to news of the first use of a nuclear weapon.

## 2016

* I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
* ~ Emiliano Zapata ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* O lovely chance, what can I do To give my gratefulness to you? You rise between myself and me With a wise persistency; I would have broken body and soul, But by your grace, still I am whole.
* ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2018

* That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery.
* ~ Francis Hutcheson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* I lift my heart as spring lifts up A yellow daisy to the rain; My heart will be a lovely cup Altho' it holds but pain. For I shall learn from flower and leaf That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
* ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,— You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.
* ~ Sara Teasdale ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2021

* Men have been laughed out of faults which a sermon could not reform; nay, there are many little indecencies which are improper to be mentioned in such solemn discourses. Now ridicule with contempt or ill-nature, is indeed always irritating and offensive; but we may, by testifying a just esteem for the good qualities of the person ridiculed, and our concern for his interests, let him see that our ridicule of his weakness flows from love to him, and then we may hope for a good effect. This then is another necessary rule, "That along with our ridicule of smaller faults we should always join evidences of good nature and esteem."
* ~ Francis Hutcheson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America. I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong, and some were wrong, they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the Nation. To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, to many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support. And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ. So, let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.
* ~ Richard Nixon ~
   * proposed by Kalki; anniversary of this resignation speech.

## 2023

* To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
* ~ Richard Nixon ~
   * proposed by MosheZadka

## 2024

* The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency, he has a right thus to act.
* ~ Francis Hutcheson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

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## Suggestions

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love — But you will not assuage him. He alone Of all the gods will take no gifts from men. ~ Sara Teasdale
* 3 InvisibleSun 10:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 23:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 15:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. ~ Sara Teasdale ~
* 3 Kalki 23:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* 1 Zarbon 15:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Military occupation causes terrorism. ~ Chris Eubank
* 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. ~ Chris Eubank
* 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
* 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Sleep peacefully people, there will not be a war. ~ Alija Izetbegović
* 2 Zarbon 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
But the voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
* 4 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
* 3 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Care for the race, even if the individual must suffer -- this must be the keynote of our future. ~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
* 3 Fossil 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 22:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)