# July 14

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2003

    If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein
   * selected by Nanobug

## 2004

    Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. ~ Ingmar Bergman (born 14 July 1918)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2006

    Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ Ingmar Bergman
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking my freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land is made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie ~ (born 14 July 1912)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine … don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place. ~ Woody Guthrie
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island, From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters, This land was made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom. ~ André Malraux
   * proposed by Aphaia

## 2011

    I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed had I to turn to a General and rule men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship. ~ Buenaventura Durruti
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
* ~ Ingmar Bergman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility.
* ~ Ingmar Bergman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Ever'body might be just one big soul, Well it looks that a-way to me. Everywhere that you look, in the day or night, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma, That's where I'm a-gonna be.Wherever little children are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain't free. Wherever men are fightin' for their rights, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma. That's where I'm a-gonna be.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us tyranny's Bloody banner is raised … Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They're coming right into your arms To slaughter your sons, your companions!! To arms, citizens, Form your battalions, Let's march, let's march!
* ~ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ~
   * proposed by Kalki for Bastille Day 2017.

## 2018

* No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. … I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn’t matter; painting was the stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew to be his life purpose; that justified him. Even if his work had been worthless, he would have been a thousand times more successful than if he had put down his desire and become the richest merchant in Amsterdam.
* ~ Irving Stone ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all. Pull in my feelings, and call back all of my sentiments — and not let any earthly event move me in either direction, either cause me to hate, to fear, to love, to care, to take sides, to argue the matter at all — and, yet … there are certain good times, and pleasures that I never can forget, no matter how much I want to, because the pleasures, and the displeasures, the good times and the bad, are really all there is to me. And these pleasures that you cannot ever forget are the yeast that always starts working in your mind again, and it gets in your thoughts again, and in your eyes again, and then, all at once, no matter what has happened to you, you are building a brand new world again, based and built on the mistakes, the wreck, the hard luck and trouble of the old one.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

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## Suggestions

I have always admired [Ingmar Bergman], and I wish I could be a equally good filmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience. ~ Steven Spielberg. Ingmar Bergman was born that day.
* 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
* 3 Jeff Q (talk) 20:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 06:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
* 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
The Only Church That Illuminates Is A Burning Church. ~ Buenaventura Durruti
* 3 Zarbon 02:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 22:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 0; the attribution of this to Durruti is dubious.
* 3 AdamKadmon 00:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 06:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
* This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:50, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
* I'm blowing, and just as wild and whirling as you are, and lots of times I've been picked up, throwed down, and picked up; but my eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls...
* ~ Woody Guthrie ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:50, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Busy, curious, thirsty Fly, Gently drink, and drink as I; Freely welcome to my Cup, Could’st thou sip, and sip it up; Make the most of Life you may, Life is short and wears away.
    ~ William Oldys
* 4 Ficaia (talk) 09:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)