# June 7

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ Euripides
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks (born 7 June 1917)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. ~ Paul Gauguin (born 7 June 1848)
   * proposed by InvisibleSun (author) and Kalki (quote)

## 2007

    Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. ~ Paul Gauguin (born 7 June 1848)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter. ~ June Jordan
   * proposed by Kalki (originally suggested with an attribution of Gwendolyn Brooks, but soon after it was selected this was determined to be a long standing misattribution, and the correct attribution was made.)

## 2010

    Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. ~ Paul Gauguin
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* The world can only be redeemed through action — movement — motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.
* ~ Alice Moore Hubbard ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.
* ~ Alice Moore Hubbard ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can. I give you what I have. You don’t get all your questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in the developing world of my Poem? I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.
* ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by J.A.R.N.Y.

## 2021

* Love... Thy will be done I can no longer hide, I can no longer run No longer can I resist Your guiding light That gives me the power 2 keep up the fight Oh Lord, Love... Thy will be done Since I have found you, my life has just begun And I see all of Your creations as one perfect complex No one less beautiful or more special than the next We are all blessed and so wise 2 accept Thy will, Love, be done.
* ~ Prince ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
* ~ Elizabeth Bowen ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
* ~ Paul Gauguin ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2024

* As we reflect on the sacrifices made on D-Day, we are reminded that freedom is not free and it has never been guaranteed. Every generation has to earn it, fight for it, and defend it in the battle between autocracy and democracy — between the greed of a few and the rights of many. Eighty years after our Nation’s brave Airmen, Coast Guardsmen, Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines embarked on D-Day — and as Americans everywhere answered the call to prayer and filled their hearts and homes with hope — may we honor the faith they kept in our Nation and their legacy by upholding the future that they died for — one grounded in freedom, democracy, opportunity, and equality for all.
* ~ Joe Biden ~
   * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks concerning commemoration of the Normandy landings of 1944.

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