# August 9

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2003

    The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. ~ Emo Phillips
   * selected by Nanobug

## 2004

    Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ Robinson Jeffers
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. ~ Jonathan B. Postel, RFC 793, entire text of section 2.10
   * proposed by 121a0012 (initially at 6 August for Postel's birthdate in 1943)

## 2006

    Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. ~ Jean Piaget
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. ~ P. L. Travers (born 9 August 1899)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. ~ Jean Piaget
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question. ~ P. L. Travers
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    If you are not ready, and did not know what to do, it could hurt you in different ways. It could knock you down, hard, or throw you against a tree or a wall. It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings and knock signboards over, and break windows all over town, but if you duck and cover, like Bert, you will be much safer. ~ Duck and Cover (1951), about protecting yourself from an atomic explosion; the last-ever nuclear attack (so far) occurred on this date
   * proposed by MosheZadka

## 2011

    When the rain came down — I was standing in the green My soul was touched by every tree that my eyes could see I am in peace, in love, in harmony — when the rain comes downWhen the rain came down — melded with my tears When the rain came down — flow away the fears When the rain came down — bigger than the sea When the rain came down — then came me. ~ Happy Rhodes ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* This darkness will not last forever. There will some day come a Fifth of November — or another date, it doesn't matter — when fires will burn in a chain of brightness from Land's End to John O' Groats. The children will dance and leap about them as they did in the times before. They will take each other by the hand and watch the rockets breaking, and afterwards they will go home singing to the houses full of light...
* ~ P. L. Travers ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
* ~ Marvin Minsky ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2014

* We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.
* ~ P. L. Travers ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
* ~ Albert Einstein ~
   * proposed by Kalki for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.

## 2016

* I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.
* ~ Happy Rhodes ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* I've found that people aren't really as different as they sometimes seem. We all have joy and tragedy in our lives. So it only follows that if I write something from my heart and stay true to myself, others will easily identify.
* ~ Happy Rhodes ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* I dreamed I was an animal In a human world Now when I hear big sounds I cry like a little girl I'm talking about connections Between here and there All things exist at once Seems more than we can bear.
* ~ Happy Rhodes ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society … but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
* ~ Izaak Walton ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2021

* Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. They are more or less isomorphic to transformations of reality. The transformational structures of which knowledge consists are not copies of the transformations in reality; they are simply possible isomorphic models among which experience can enable us to choose. Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* Sometimes there’s a miracle just beyond the pain When you can see the rainbow in the rainLive on, live on Brighter skies will come again Cry the tears you cry and then live on, live on Love is all we leave when we are gone Live on.
* ~ Olivia Newton-John ~
   * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.

## 2023

* Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
* ~ Izaak Walton ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

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## Suggestions

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. ~ Gerald Ford, became president on 9 August after Nixon's resignation.
* 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
* 1 don't want to use this if we use Nixon on 8th AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
* 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC); ditto on "not after Nixon"
* 1 InvisibleSun 23:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 15:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Edison got telegraph patent today
* 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
* 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:28, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
* 0 This has now already been used, on 21 October 2005. ~ Kalki 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 15:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
No man can lose what he never had. ~ Izaak Walton
* 3 Zarbon 05:15, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 11:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
* 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door. ~ Marvin Minsky
* 3 Kalki 11:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Zarbon 01:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always. ~ P. L. Travers
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ~ P. L. Travers
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
* 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. ~ P. L. Travers
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small. ~ P. L. Travers
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC); no context.
Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life. ~ Happy Rhodes ~
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
* Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
* There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. … There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
* When the child comes to draw things as he sees them, it will be precisely because he has given up taking isolated objects in and for themselves and has begun to construct real systems of relations which take account of the true perspective in which things are connected
* ~ Jean Piaget ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)