August 9

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 down When 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
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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 &middot; 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 &middot; 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 &middot; 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 &middot; 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 &middot; contributions) 01:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)


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