August 3

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
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by allixpeeke


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard to recent events.


 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
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. ~ 3 August 1493 1492 diary entry by Christopher Columbus, starting his journey to what will become known as America.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 02:38, August 2, 2005 (UTC) (corrected year per WP)
 * 3 AllanHainey 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 (strongly leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 07:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

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 &middot; 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 &middot; 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)


 * 3 (August 3rd is Yazidi Genocide Remembrance Day.) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC); recent response to the recent indictment of Donald Trump.


 * 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)