# August 3

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ~ Khalil Gibran
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2006

    Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one. ~ Clifford D. Simak
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment. ~ Clifford D. Simak
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    Perhaps there was no limit, there might, quite likely, be no such condition as the ultimate; there might be no time when any creature or any group of creatures could stop at any certain point and say, this is as far as we can go, there is no use of trying to go farther. For each new development produced, as side effects, so many other possibilities, so many other roads to travel, that with each step one took down any given road there were more paths to follow. There'd never be an end, he thought — no end to anything. ~ Clifford D. Simak
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    Much of what we see in the universe … starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. ~ Clifford D. Simak
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* The machine merely acts as an intermediary between the sensitive and the spiritual force. It is an extension of the sensitive. It magnifies the capability of the sensitive and acts as a link of some sort. It enables the sensitive to perform his function.
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains.
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2015

* Nothing to be done.
* ~ Samuel Beckett ~
   * proposed by allixpeeke

## 2016

* It was a hopeless thing, he thought, this obsession of his to present the people of the Earth as good and reasonable. For in many ways they were neither good nor reasonable; perhaps because they had not as yet entirely grown up. They were smart and quick and at times compassionate and even understanding, but they failed lamentably in many other ways. But if they had the chance … if they ever got a break, if they only could be told what was out in space, then they'd get a grip upon themselves and they would measure up and then, in the course of time, would be admitted into the great cofraternity of the people of the stars.
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof the true mark of a Christian?
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2018

* It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so.
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* The river rolled below him and the river did not care. Nothing mattered to the river. It would take the tusk of mastodon, the skull of sabertooth, the rib cage of a man, the dead and sunken tree, the thrown rock or rifle and would swallow each of them and cover them in mud or sand and roll gurgling over them, hiding them from sight. A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river — but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself — a thing that went on caring.
* ~ Clifford D. Simak ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* When things don't go your way — or, rather, what you don't think of as your way — there can be a variety of opportunities that may not be obvious in the moment but that through hard work, preparation, and persistence can present themselves over time and make you better.
* ~ Tom Brady ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* You can make life a lot harder for yourself by focusing on negative things in your path or making excuses for why things didn't go your way. Or, you can refuse to take things personally, let them go, learn from them, and become the best version of yourself. It's a choice. It's actually your choice.
* ~ Tom Brady ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* My fellow Americans, on Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed the emir of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. … People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer.  The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm. … After relentlessly seeking Zawahiri for years under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, our intelligence community located Zawahiri earlier this year. … After carefully considering the clear and convincing evidence of his location, I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield once and for all. This mission was carefully planned and rigorously minimized the risk of harm to other civilians.  And one week ago, after being advised that the conditions were optimal, I gave the final approval to go get him, and the mission was a success.  None of his family members were hurt, and there were no civilian casualties.
* ~ Joe Biden ~
   * proposed by Kalki; in regard to recent events.

## 2023

* The Constitution is quite clear about the role of the vice president in the counting of electoral votes. It essentially says the vice president presides over a joint session of Congress where the electoral votes that are certified by the states shall be opened and shall be counted. And irrespective of the indictment, I want the American people to know that I had no right to overturn the election. And that on that day, President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution. But I chose the Constitution and I always will. … I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.
* ~ Mike Pence ~
   * proposed by Kalki; recent response to the recent indictment of Donald Trump.

## 2024

* I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
* ~ Christopher Columbus ~
   * proposed by MosheZadka; 1492 diary entry starting his journey to what will become known as America.

## 2025

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## Suggestions

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists... ~ Clifford D. Simak
* 3 because the eternity of time stretches forever and the acceptance of the unknown is what makes it even more of a mystery. Zarbon 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
* 2 allixpeeke (talk) 07:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (It may very well be much more than a concept, especially considering it can be manipulated by mass.)
There were certain basic things, perhaps — the very earth, itself — which existed through every point in time, holding a sort of limited eternity to provide a solid matrix. And the dead — the dead and fabricated — stayed in the past as ghosts. … They were bound in time and stretched through time and they were long, long shadows. ~ Clifford D. Simak
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:49, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
* 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
You travel back along the line of time and you don't find the past, but another world, another bracket of consciousness. The earth would be the same, you see, or almost the same. Same trees, same rivers, same hills, but it wouldn't be the world we know. Because it has lived a different life, it has developed differently. The second back of us is not the second back of us at all, but another second, a totally separate sector of time. We live in the same second all the time. We move along within the bracket of that second, that tiny bit of time that has been allotted to our particular world. ~ Clifford D. Simak
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:49, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
* 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
* 2 allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ Clifford D. Simak
* 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
* This was used on this date in 2005 ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:05, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
* 0 if it has already been used, 2 if not. allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Agreement in likes and dislikes—this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ~ Catiline
* 3 (friendship day 2014) DanielTom (talk) 02:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 08:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
* Nobody in the West really gives a shit. And the reason nobody gives a shit, as a Yazidi refugee I spoke to said, is that in the West you have Christians, you have Muslims, you have Jews who all speak up for their co-religionists, but who cares about the Yazidi? Who cares about them?
* ~ Tom Holland ~
* 3 (August 3rd is Yazidi Genocide Remembrance Day.) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
* If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
** ~ Rupert Brooke (dob)
*** 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
* Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
** ~ Rupert Brooke (dob)
*** 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)