August 20

August 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The Government of the State of Israel and the Palestinian team representing the Palestinian people agree that it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights, and strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation through the agreed political process. ~ Oslo Accords, finalized in Oslo, Norway on 20 August 1993.
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. ~ H. P. Lovecraft ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Science traditionally takes the reductionist approach, saying that the collective properties of molecules, or the fundamental units of whatever system you're talking about, are enough to account for all of the system's activity. But this standard approach leaves out one very important additional factor, and that's the spacing and timing of activity — its pattern or form. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. ~ H. P. Lovecraft
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Joan Allen · Benjamin Harrison · Isaac Hayes · Robert Plant · Jim Reeves · Patricia Rozema · Thomas Simpson · Roger Wolcott Sperry · Paul Tillich

Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible — though I know not in what proportion — still remains. ~ H. P. Lovecraft
 * 2 because this can be interpreted in many ways. A moral interpretation would recount to the inner-most lurkings of human evil, which has remained stagnant for years and years to come. Zarbon 15:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:22, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety. ~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * 2 Zarbon 15:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC) though I might rank it at 3 with just the first sentence.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:22, 15 August 2013 (UTC)


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